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 WeaverArt school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.
Sigourney WeaverI've always been very shy and sheltered; I think it was a good way of starting to communicate with people. I was taught as a child never to talk about myself, never to talk about my emotions. Of course, now I talk about myself constantly. Now I have to take reverse est.
Sigourney WeaverWhen 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 WeaverMost of life is hell. Itโs filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams donโt work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But youโll never get to the next great moment if you donโt keep going. So thatโs what I do. I keep going.
Sigourney Weaver