145 Quotes by Sigourney Weaver

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.

I’ve always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn’t matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.

I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn’t like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. So what happened? Now everyone calls me Sig or Siggy.

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.

I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I’ve been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who’s very smart, and wicked.

I feel self-doubt whether I’m doing something hard or easy.

I often meet young directors who, you know, had a ‘Ghostbusters’ picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it’s really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.

I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word ‘franchise’ – it always makes me think of French fries. What I felt each time was that we were going for broke, that this was going to be the last in the series. You can’t count on anything.

As long as your robot isn’t programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you’re going to be fine.