88 Quotes by Sarah Gadon

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

You often have a great director who's like, "Well, actually I don't even want to reveal you until the end of this scene" or something like that and it totally changes everything that you thought it was going to be.

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.

It sounds really corny but every film that you do is its own journey, it's its own experience, it's its own thing. Often you think it's going to be one way and then it goes another way - you think you can chart a character and then other things happen. That's the amazing thing about our jobs, it's constantly changing and it's extremely dynamic and you therefore have to be dynamic as well.

If you ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, it’s about the resilience of love and how much you’re willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person – and I think that’s really important.

In my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the crew the freedom and the space to create. It’s the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage.

When you look at something that’s so extraordinary, like a man who is traveling back in time to prevent JFK’s assassination, for me as an actor, you’re still trying to seed it in some sort of reality.

It’s mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

I was brought up to express myself and say how I was feeling.