Best of Design Matters: Sarah Polley

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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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.”

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	This archival episode of Design Matters originally dropped in February of 2023.
0:13.4	You know, I really have issues in general in movies with the concept of villains.
0:17.6	I think it's a really harmful concept.
0:19.2	I don't think we should have them.
0:20.1	I think we can have people do terrible awful things but I think if we don't
0:24.0	seek to understand some part of their humanity we're just doing all of us a great
0:27.3	disservice. From the TED audio collective this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.
0:35.0	For 18 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do, how they got to be
0:44.1	who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.
0:48.0	On this episode, Sarah Polly talks about her family and her career and about her most recent film.
0:54.3	I found the debate so alive, an electric,
0:59.4	and the premise so hopeful?
1:10.0	One of the contenders for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars this year is Sarah Polly's latest movie, Women Talking. The movie is
1:16.8	intense, closely observed, hopeful and disturbing, and a must watch for anyone interested in complexly beautiful stories.
1:28.0	This is Sarah Polly's fourth feature film as a director and it's now clear that she is in the midst of an extraordinary
1:35.2	new chapter of her career which is also included acting in over 40 films,
1:40.7	stage work, producing, writing, and directing television, and the writing of an extraordinary
1:47.9	memoir.
1:48.9	Hopefully, we'll be able to get to talk about much of that today.
1:53.6	Sarah Polly, welcome to Design Matters.
1:56.7	Thank you so much for having me.
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