Filmmaker, Writer, Producer and Dad Joke teller extraordinaire
Leah Alexandra Pollack was born September 3rd, 1992 in Little Rock, AR.
She graduated in 2018 from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) with a B.F.A in Film and Television with a focus in Screenwriting and Producing and a background in film editing.
Leah found a love and untapped talent for directing after making her senior thesis film "The Scarecrow". Her film was 1 of 4 projects chosen as a spotlight film for the 2016 SCAD Narrative Thesis Award.
Since then The Scarecrow has also been screened at over 30 festivals around the world including the U.S, India, Italy, Israel, Iran, Belgium, Japan, and now the U.K.. Also, It is currently a nominee in the 2018 Southeast EMMY Student Production Award in the Short Form Fiction Category.
College
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
Film and Television
20142018
High School
Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High Schoo
Theater
20112012
Birth Date
September 3, 1992
Height
5'5
Gender
Female
Ethnicity
Caucasian
Eye Color
Hazel
Zodiac Sign
Virgo
Married To
J. Allen
Children
none
Favorite genres are Horror and Comedy.
"You may not be able to control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them"
-Maya Angelou
"There's no shame in failing. The only shame is in not giving things your best shot"
- Robin Williams
“Those things that hurt, instruct.” —Benjamin Franklin
"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
-Sylvia Plath
"Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery, today is a gift that is why they call it a present."
- Ooguay
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
— Mary Shelley
“If I begin to feel judgment towards others, that is my indicator that I have some inner work and self-love to focus on. Never attempt to self-sooth internal pain through external judgement. It’s a cop out. True acceptance of others comes from accepting ourselves in all of our perfect imperfections and healing from our past.”
— Dayna Martin
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made, or by dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”
— Alan Cohen
"There's a drive in me that won't let me do things that are easy"
-Johnny Depp
“Trust Me, I never Lose; I either win or learn!”
- Unknown
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
-Albert Einstein
"Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You"
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. to suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable"
-Joseph Addison
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
-Orson Welles
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
- Maya Angelou
"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
-Alan Moore
"When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit."
-Alan Moore
"Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock.. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket."
-Alan Moore
"It's only impossible if you stop and think about it."
- The Pirate Captain
“It is important that we stop giving ourselves such a hard time. We have to remind ourselves and push ourselves to let go. There’s not much to do except to ‘be’ and ‘in being’ become aware. See what’s going on around you all the time, and allow it to happen. All the sadness. All the joy. And that’s why Jim’s last words are most important: Please watch out for another…love everyone. And forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt, your shame, your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. Let us have mercy on each and every one of us. And every day we will open up like cocoons and become beautiful butterflies and live in this moment. And the next. And the next. And the next.”
- Richard Hunt at Jim Henson's memorial service in 1990
“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.”
-Pablo Neruda
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible!"
-Audrey Hepburn
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
-Thomas A. Edison
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”
― Dr. Seuss
“And while we’re on the subject, I’d like to say a few words about escapism. I hear the term bandied about as if it’s a bad thing. As if “escapist” fiction is a cheap opiate used by the muddled and the foolish and the deluded, and the only fiction that is worthy, for adults or for children, is mimetic fiction, mirroring the worst of the world the reader finds herself in.
If you were trapped in an impossible situation, in an unpleasant place, with people who meant you ill, and someone offered you a temporary escape, why wouldn’t you take it? And escapist fiction is just that: fiction that opens a door, shows the sunlight outside, gives you a place to go where you are in control, are with people you want to be with(and books are real places, make no mistake about that); and more importantly, during your escape, books can also give you knowledge about the world and your predicament, give you weapons, give you armour: real things you can take back into your prison. Skills and knowledge and tools you can use to escape for real.
As JRR Tolkien reminded us, the only people who inveigh against escape are jailers.”
— Neil Gaiman
"Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back"
- Ben Jonson
"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
- Walt Disney
"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
- Bruce Lee
"If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve."
-Jellos Biafra
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”
— Osho
“Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”
— Mandy Hale
“Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
— Elie Wiesel
“Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the
end of the day saying,
“i will try again tomorrow.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher
“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
— Carl Sagan
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
— Albert Einstein
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
— Truman Capote
"“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” -Isaac Asimov
Filmmaker, Writer, Producer and Dad Joke teller extraordinaire
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