Sarah Polley Quotes

I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

I feel it would be a huge mistake for 'Vogue' always to be completely tasteful, completely perfect. I think it's very important for us to also rock the boat.

I don't want to just make the safe, easy commercial films.

I admire actors who are bold and try to go forward over the cliche and propose something original to the audience.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

The guy that I worked on 'Thriller ' was a genius and he was 20 years old, but it was like working with a gifted 10-year-old. The guy who I worked on with 'Black Or White' was crazy. Michael had gone mad.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

Originality is dangerous.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

It is so important for designers not to run scared, and not to be too worried about what's safe and what's commercial.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.