Sally Potter
Sally Potter
Charlotte Sally Potter, OBEis an English film director and screenwriter...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth19 September 1949
teacher want next
I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one.
beautiful thinking language
I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.
powerful struggle mean
You can't really divorce women's struggles in the world from women's in the cinema. As long as there's hierarchy it means that women are somehow secondary or second class or less than. That's going to be reflected in movies because films are the most powerful medium to reflect back society's view of itself
war home people
Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make a family, make a nest. Women were pushed back into the home after having been active in the Second World War. It was a big Doris Day moment for women, which didn't suit all women.
thinking want way
I am not interested in making didactic polemical statements. That is not the way I want to make films. There is a place for polemics, but I don't think that it is in fictional cinema. Fictional cinema works subtly and deeply.