Sarah Polley Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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• So it’s conceivable I’ll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that’s possible.

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• Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It’s fun not to take myself seriously all the time.

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• Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff – that would be taking a huge risk for me.

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• 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.

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• It’s not that I don’t want to become famous or that I’m obsessed by my work as an actress, but it’s all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

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• I’m never sure what’s coming next, but I’m an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.

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• 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.

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

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• I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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Sarah Polley (17)

Birth:	8th January, 1979
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actress, Director, Screenwriter, Singer

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