Sarah Polley Quotes

Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time.

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.

I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.

I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.

Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.

With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing.

I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me.

In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.

I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.

I feel like we want women to be simpler, less complex, so we project a lot of versions of simplicity onto them to fit that.