Sarah Polley
Sarah Polley
Sarah E. Polley OCis a Canadian actress, writer, director and political activist. Polley first garnered attention for her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series Road to Avonlea. She has starred in many feature films, including Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Guinevere, Go, The Weight of Water, My Life Without Me, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Dawn of the Dead, Splice, and Mr. Nobody...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth8 January 1979
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
But I've realized that I've stuck to a very specific kind of film and a very specific style of acting, and I would like to shake things up for myself.
So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.
This is the next generation of filmmakers and our films are going to get more interesting as they reflect the new Canadian experience...of Canada's and of their cultures,
They've got only one guy who comes back from the dead. We've got millions.
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.
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.
Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.
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.
I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.
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.
I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.
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.