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Sarah Polley Biography

Sarah Ellen Polley OC (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian actress, writer, director, and political activist. Polley first garnered attention and is probably most known as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona, based on Beverly Cleary's books. Subsequently this lead on to her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series Road to Avonlea (1990–1996). She has starred in many feature films, including Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Guinevere (1999), Go (1999), The Weight of Water (2000), My Life Without Me (2003), Dawn of the Dead (2004), Splice (2009), and Mr. Nobody (2009).

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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.

Civilization, Fall, Global, Our World, See

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.

Directors, Giving Up, Kinds, Scary, Things

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

Actually, Amazing, Doe, Goes On, World

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.

Concerned, Done, Fun, Genuinely, Independent, Ridiculously

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.

Actress, Invent, Method, Process, Thinking, Working

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.

Actually, Audience, Film, Films, Life, Short Films

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.

Blow, Crazy, Ride, Running, Shoot

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.

Half, Politically, School, Taken, Years

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

Captivate, Ideas, Influential, Powerful, Thinking

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.

Beautiful, Life, Strength, Strong, Thing, Ways

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

Events, Memories, People, Pivotal, Thinking, Versions

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.

Connected, Grace, Like, Political, Scary, Speaking

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.

Ability, Long, People, Profession, Time, Writing

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.

Acting, Cynical, Done, Felt, Teenager, Young

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.

Beautiful, Ideas, Known, Realized, Saw, Writing

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

Commercial, Directing, Enjoy, Intimate, Pictures

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.

Decided, Film, Make, Needs, Stories, Tell

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.

Dawn, Dead, Our World, Person, Race, United

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.

Be Good, Precarious, Protect, Rights, Terrifying, Thinking

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.

Control, Control Freak, Freak, Moments, Overly, Overprepared

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