Quote:
"I said to [Women Talking producers Dede Gardner and Frances McDormand], 'Look, I wasn't looking for a film to make and here's why. I have three kids. I'm not interested in disappearing for 16 hours a day. I actually don't think I can direct a film. But I don't know what to do because I love this [Women Talking]. Could it wait till my kids are a lot older? Because I really don't want to disappear for this amount of time and I don't see another way of doing it unless we were to work like 10-hour days, which is impossible basically.' And Fran just sort of let out this battle cry. And was like, 'Well, you know, we're women talking and we're in an industry where men have written the rules and it's time for us to rewrite the rules. So let's just rewrite the rules and just say yes. We'll do short days and make it viable.'"
-- Sarah Polley

Source:
Polley, Sarah, and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers. "Women Talking: Sarah Polley & Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers: Unpacking what justice, accountability and reconciliation looks like." Now (Toronto), September 7, 2022.