I can be incredibly angry with someone, I can be incredibly critical, but... I went through a period where I was reading a lot of memoirs of guards in holocausts and serial killers. I like to understand why people do bad things.
Ira SachsAll history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. Thatโs what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
Ira SachsUtopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.
Ira SachsMy early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.
Ira SachsI think parenting well is not so different than trying to consider how to be successful at any relationship. Like, how do you partner well? How do you collaborate well? How do we have this conversation well? You know, you're always trying to figure out what "well" means, so I think parenting is another version of that.
Ira Sachs