I let a lot of people down when I dropped out of that role. It will always be a part of who I am, how I did that. There's a sense of directionless when this thing that you're supposed to want, you find out you don't. And so if you don't want that, what do you want? I did go into a depression. But somewhere in that depression, I came up with this idea for a short film. And I started to make it with some friends and with some old crew members I knew. Through the process of that collaboration, just the intensity and joy of that collaboration,. I think I really found the path that I wanted to be
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, actor, and author Sarah Polley, who began her career as a childhood actress more than three decades ago, joins to talk about her life’s work and newest film, “Women Talking.”