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
I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me.
I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.
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.
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.
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.
I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.
I think it’s a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories,
So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.
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.
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.
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.