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 PolleyI 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 PolleyPlus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time.
Sarah PolleyMy 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.
Sarah Polley