"Life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it like some lunatic."

Show Notes

Sarah Polley is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, and actor. After making short films, Polley made her feature-length directorial debut with the drama film Away from Her in 2006. Polley received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay, which she adapted from the Alice Munro story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” Her other projects include the documentary film Stories We Tell (2012), which won the New York Film Critics Circle prize and the National Board of Review award for best documentary; the miniseries adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel Alias Grace (2017); and the romantic comedy Take This Waltz (2011). Her most recent film is WOMEN TALKING.  Her new book is Run Towards the Danger.

You can hear Sarah's other piece of advice on the evolving stories we tell ourselves here.

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