Sarah Polley Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Jail, Want, Littles

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• I've always been such a fan of short films - in fact, I never considered that I would actually make a feature. I just thought I wanted to make shorts for the rest of my life. They are a lot harder to have shown and a lot harder to find and see as an audience, but I don't know. It's just a form that I really love. I was just making them for the process, but ultimately, I did get them into festivals, and they did end up on television, and they had as much of a life as short films can.

  Sarah Polley

  Film, Audience, Short Films

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I think what I've learned most from being an actress is that there's no method. That you have to invent this process over and over and over again, depending on who you're working with and what you're doing.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• We're in this space right now where things are very precarious for women and things in the States are so terrifying. There are so many rollbacks of rights women have gained - and it can happen quickly, more quickly than we think. I think it would be good for us to think back and ahead to protect the space we're in.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Protect, Be Good

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.

  Sarah Polley

  Giving Up, Scary, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only disadvantage to directing if you've been an actor is how self-conscious you are. When I'm directing, I'm always so aware when I'm speaking to an actor of how easily I could throw them off by saying something careless or not being clear or concise. So it does make you watch your words in a way that sometimes is unhelpful.

  Sarah Polley

  Self, Doe, Watches

  "Sarah Polley" by Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I am aware that I've generally been more attracted to introspective roles, but it's sort of bizarre, because it's the opposite of who I am in many ways. I think I'm quite an extroverted, loud person. So it interests me that that's sort of the place that I go all quiet, is when I'm onscreen. It's a bit strange.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Strange, Quiet

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

  Sarah Polley

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Sarah Polley" by Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible.

  Sarah Polley

  Fun, Independent, Done

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• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Mom, Cancer, Thinking

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• I always look for an intense experience, an intense ride. There is nothing better than a good zombie movie where you run crazy and blow at monsters! It was a physical shoot and I enjoyed it.

  Sarah Polley

  Running, Crazy, Blow

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• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Christmas, Views, Want

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

  Sarah Polley

  Intimate, Enjoy

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

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Together, Twenties

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

  Sarah Polley

  Fun, Zombie, Plus

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• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Taken, School, Years

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

  Sarah Polley

  Challenges, Next, Welcome

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• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Risk, Playing Roles, Would Be

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