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Episode 1403 - Sarah Polley

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

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Is There Any Matching of Actors to Your Real Mom and the Scripted Mom?

I had this amazing cinematographer Iris Ng who tested every super eight camera and everybody's basement in Toronto for months Oh, and then she played a character So she looked at all my dad's super eight footage and the way he shot and what he focused on and how he moved the camera. She played him which meant she wasn't necessarily always going towards what the action was she'd go towards what she knew My dad would be interested in Sometimes if a moment was too convenient to have been filmed right it would sort of happen in the background of something else. It had to feel like they were in character And then my editor Mike Munn also had to you know Play the character of you know

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