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.
Sarah PolleyActing 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.
Sarah PolleyFilm 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.
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 Polley