Sarah Polley Quotes

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

Learning something new is fun.

You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

I'm definitely one of them artists that loves putting the track on and having fun with it, but in my own way.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

More and more, I play myself, as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project, or initiated my own things. I was never known as the guy who wrote romantic comedies or sci-fi, or whatever, but that's fun to me. The first two films I ever had made, as a writer, were both thrillers, which was great. There was nothing funny about either of them, or not intentionally. I actually love that.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get in and have fun. To me, if it feels right, that's all that needs to be done.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

I want to challenge myself, challenge my styles.

I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.