Sigourney Weaver Quotes

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.

Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say something.

I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.

I want to do films that provide entertainment, but are also content-driven.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

I think I can speak with a degree of authority... today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot.

I'd love to do more independent films.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as 'The Slap' has, that's great. The sense I get is that it's not about me or my performance. More than anything it's the subject matter that people are focused on.'

When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.

The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.