Quotes from Sarah Gadon

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

I don't love L.A. It's a great place to visit; it's a great place to meet and work, but I don't want to live there.

I look at scripts, and sometimes I apply theory to them. For 'Antiviral,' for example, I was reading Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' and it was all about the psychological process by which we fetishize the female image. It's all about scopophilia.

I love film, and I love short films.

You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point.

It was really great to be part of the Philip Roth story as a woman in a very complete way.

When you're in a very specific kind of wardrobe, it kind of dictates your movement; it also kind of enables you - or, I guess, disables you - from certain kinds of movement.

I have these surreal moments where I'm like, 'I'm pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal's baby' and 'I'm telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.' But you're acting, so the focus is on the work.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

It's tempting to think, 'This is silly. I'm an artist. I care about my work, my work is first. I don't care about what kind of dress I wear... That's so secondary to me.' But if you care about your work... then you need to take this part of it just as seriously as you would going into an audition and going into work.

When you're wearing a corset for a long period of time, things that were important to you hours before are no longer important, because doing them exhausts you.

I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.

It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage. But that's true of any profession and hierarchy with a boss. You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job, and then you have the ones that just hover around.

Without disruptions in life, where would we be?

Film is an art form. Dissecting and understanding it is a part of our own interest in humanity.

Should 50 per cent of Telefilm's projects be helmed, produced, or written by women? I think so.

I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

Sometimes when you're working on a period piece, there's this tendency to be nostalgic about the period and do everything superglamorous, which can end up looking cliche.

I think Tilda Swinton is terribly interesting. I think she's fascinating. I love her work.

It's really a testament to my parents, because I was active, curious and creative as a child, and my parents nurtured that. But I wouldn't say that I was a professional child actor at all. I was never the breadwinner of my family.

Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.

I was getting a lot of pressure to go to the States, but I never really wanted to. I saw Cronenberg forge his own path, and that made me believe that I could do that, too.

Growing up, you have all these ideas, and then you're confronted and faced with the real world for the first time. And you have to think of what you want your life to be.