Sarah Polley Quotes

Quotes about:

• AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations.

  Sarah Polley

  Fall, Our World, Civilization

  Interview with Roxanna Bina, www.ifqmag.com.

  45 Copy quote

• The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've overcome and how, and what they haven't and how that's become a good thing. Almost everyone's life is both a gorgeous story and a tragedy. I think being alive is really, really hard, and I'm constantly stunned and amazed by people who make it interesting and beautiful.

  Sarah Polley

  Strength, Beautiful, Strong

  14 Copy quote

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

  Sarah Polley

  Memories, Thinking, People

  13 Copy quote

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

  Sarah Polley

  Doe, Goes On, World

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

  9 Copy quote

• We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row . . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.

  Sarah Polley

  Ducks, Mad, Doubt

  8 Copy quote

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

  Sarah Polley

  Moments, Midst, Tragic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  7 Copy quote

• I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Often Is, Cynicism

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

  4 Copy quote

• It's been really important to me to create moments where there's a breath or moments where there's a laugh or moments where there's real life that's allowed to seep in through the cracks of whatever melodrama is happening, because that's what does happen in life.

  Sarah Polley

  Real, Laughing, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Sarah Polley

  Mother, Like You, Good Things

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

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Simplicity, Fit

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Trying, Together

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Opportunity, Horizon, World

  15 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

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

  Sarah Polley

  World, Want, Ends

  8 Copy quote

• Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

  Sarah Polley

  Teenager, Cynical, Acting

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

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Freak, Moments, Control Freak

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Sarah Polley

  Struggle, Matter, Facts

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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world - one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force.

  Sarah Polley

  Our World, Race, Dawn

  7 Copy quote

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin