Early Life
Potter was born and raised in London. Her mother was a music teacher and her father was an interior designer and a poet. When asked about her ideological background, which influenced her work as a filmmaker, she responds, "I came from an atheist background and an anarchist background, which meant that I grew up in an environment that was full of questions, where nothing could be taken for granted."
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