Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs
Ira Sachsis an American filmmaker. His first film was the acclaimed short Lady...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth21 November 1965
CountryUnited States of America
embracing instead realize strength
I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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Working on the Obama campaign was a life-changer for me. I realized during that campaign that structure is the name of the game, and so, soon after the election, filmmaker Adam Baran and I started Queer/Art/Film, a monthly series at the IFC Film Center in downtown New York that invites queer artists to present the films they love to an audience.
based history places realize
As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
biggest heroes kids last people realize suddenly
One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
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I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
cannot filmmaker fully
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
best cannot survive
'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
coming films iran stuff taiwan
I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
career easy hard
It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
crucial life since
I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
both certain subject until
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.