Stories We Tell Sarah Polley Quotes & Sayings

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew. — Sarah Polley

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard. — Sarah Polley