Tom Skerritt
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“the woman becomes the hero. I really like that idea.”
Tom Skerritt · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-22
Skerritt told the Seattle Times what appealed to him about the script for the film 'Alien.'
“the woman becomes a hero”
Tom Skerritt · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-22
Skerritt said one of the things he liked most about the Alien script was that Sigourney Weaver's character becomes a hero.
“It is spontaneity and impulse that make the difference, and that is what I felt we had with 'Alien',”
Tom Skerritt · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-22
Skerritt reflected on the making of the 1979 sci-fi film Alien in a 2019 interview reported by Reuters.
“It was written by the best writer on television,”
Tom Skerritt · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-22
Skerritt discussed the television series 'Picket Fences' in a 2019 interview with the A.V. Club.
“That was the magic and brilliance of it. Because I wasn't trying to do a series, but then they said Kathy Baker was going to do it, and I thought, 'She's fabulous — what do they want me for?'”
Tom Skerritt · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-22
Skerritt discussed the television series 'Picket Fences' in a 2019 interview with the A.V. Club.
“You get hired for a film and the roles kept coming for me. I kept telling myself that if I stuck with acting it would be a really good training for what the problems are in directing. Then the family came along and I had to support them. The years flew by and there was a time when I said I would give up acting and really try to get into directing. But it hasn't worked out that way and I have no regrets.”
Tom Skerritt · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-22
Skerritt discussed how his acting career overtook his directing aspirations in a 1992 interview with The Ottawa Citizen.
“A writer once described me as a character actor locked in a leading man's body, and I've always loved that. It's a nice compliment. I've been able to walk the line between television and features,”
Tom Skerritt · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-22
Skerritt reflected on his career spanning television and film in a 1997 interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
“Every one of us had that immediate rapport with each other.”
Tom Skerritt · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-22
Skerritt discussed the cast's chemistry during the making of the 1979 film Alien in a 2019 interview.