Sarah Polley Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Parent, Fascination

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

• I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.

  Sarah Polley

  Beautiful, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

• I just feel like it's so amazing every few years when I'm not making a film to act and basically go back to film school and just watch other filmmakers work and try to be a part of somebody else's vision. So I feel like you do use two very different parts of your brain, and it's great to be able to jump back and forth.

  Sarah Polley

  School, Years, Two

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

• 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

• Film and TV is a very hard profession to enter into if you don't have the ability to take a long period of time without making money so you can write, direct or raise financing, or work your way up, often with unpaid internships. It's hard to get into without a lot of connections. You end up with a lot of white people from privilege making films. So we're seeing a lot of the same kinds of stories.

  Sarah Polley

  Writing, Long, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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

• I feel like I've always had two selves - the part of me that makes films and the part of me that's political, and they haven't really connected that much. Alias Grace talks about things like class and immigration and women's rights, which felt really good. But especially now, there are pressing things to be said. It's a really scary time in the world. It's a very scary thing to have an American president who openly brags about assaulting women and is openly racist. This isn't a moment to be speaking in metaphors.

  Sarah Polley

  Scary, Political, Grace

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Needs, Stories, Film

• 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

• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Believe, World, Film

• I think that I get different kinds of joy out of directing a film and acting, and it's sort of necessary to just be doing one and focusing on that. I'm in awe of anyone who tries to be an actor-director, so I couldn't really see that.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Joy, Trying

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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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