I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes. Sigourney Weaver More Quotes by Sigourney Weaver More Quotes From Sigourney Weaver James Cameron thinks we can do anything. He'll let you try anything. There are very few geniuses in the world, let alone in our business, and he's certainly one of them. Sigourney Weaver genius trying thinking Only someone who believes in marriage would be married five times. Sigourney Weaver being-married married believe I guess it's a pretty common experience while making a movie. You have to let go of the result and just hang on to the experience and the process, where each role takes you to a different country, as it were: You're shipwrecked on this new island, you have no clothes, you have to figure out how you're going to live in this new character. All of that turns me on. Sigourney Weaver letting-go character country My mother said, "Pack your bags and leave." And my father said, "I've already paid for a year and a half - why don't you stay and get the degree?" And I said, "That's a good idea, because then I can at least run a theater even though I have no talent, and I'll never be an actor." It's my fault that I believed them. Sigourney Weaver mother running father In Yale they convinced me I had no talent, even though I was always working. They cast me mostly as prostitutes and old women, and I stayed because I loved the writers. I loved Chris Durang and Wendy Wasserstein. I was always doing their work in the Yale Cabaret. Sigourney Weaver old-woman cabaret talent I actually have a long apology letter from Robert Brustein, saying, "I'm so sorry this happened to you. I didn't realize the people who were running the acting department at the drama school hated actors." They did. And they were fired when I graduated. Sigourney Weaver sorry running drama When I went to Yale, I thought it would be like in Stenford 24 hours a day. Robert Brustein, former dean of the Yale School of Drama and founder of the Yale Repertory Theater was there, and we did all this very serious - I would go so far as to say completely humorless - Eastern European drama, as well as August Strindberg, and Henrik Ibsen, we weren't allowed to do William Shakespeare or Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. I was not in the right place. Sigourney Weaver serious drama school I wouldn't recommend it, because art school is a funny business. Yes, if you can find a situation where they'll give you money to live at the school and do whatever you want and pay for all your materials, if you're a painter or maybe a filmmaker, do it. But acting should be the most fun thing in the world; you're surrounded by other people who are as obsessed with Anton Chekhov as you are. Sigourney Weaver fun art school I can do five things at once. I'm tapping my foot, I'm opening my mouth and talking to you, and looking at the bulletin board. Sigourney Weaver After I left Yale, we were all doing these mad plays off - off Broadway. And I got back to that feeling I had from college, of everyone making up in front of one cracked mirror, which is what I loved - the scrappy theater idea. I think off-off Broadway healed me, made me an actor again, and I was in so many different crazy shows. Sigourney Weaver crazy college thinking When I was in college, I was an English major, but I was part of this great group at Stanford called the Company. We didn't know any better, so we did it all; we did King Lear, we did Hamlet, new plays ... And we did it all in a covered wagon that we took around the Bay Area. We all put our makeup on in one cracked mirror. It was the most fun I've ever had. Sigourney Weaver makeup college fun As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine. Sigourney Weaver evil long thinking It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out. Sigourney Weaver nice color play People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive. Sigourney Weaver environmental running people I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories. Sigourney Weaver important interesting thinking Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. Sigourney Weaver tardiness late One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages. Sigourney Weaver daughter age mother I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant. Sigourney Weaver girl mean school I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense. Sigourney Weaver distance new-york thinking I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film... But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth. Sigourney Weaver movie nice thinking
