Sandra Seacat: Herring

“Laura was born an authentic artist, and, coming together, my job was to help her bring all of it forward and out. […] The artist is a shaman; a wounded healer. We have wounds that we want to bring forth through the material. It's joyful, it's painful, but not painful in a bad way. And when you do that, you also heal people in the audience.”

Sandra Seacat

As heard in "Laura Dern and Sandra Seacat: Hollywood Mentors," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpqQwfq5tqg The Hollywood Reporter (February 18, 2015)

Pain , People , Way , Help

“I think what he went through as a child was very heavy. He never got over his mother leaving his father, and following her mother to Florida, to an area that was very different, and losing his father. When he was seven years old, this was a very sensitive boy, who was wide-eyed and trusting, and not knowing how to protect himself at all.”

Sandra Seacat

As heard in the "Mickey Rourke" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_KOo2uaH3E installment of The Dark Side of Fame with Piers Morgan, broadcast October 6, 2008.

Boy , Thinking

“Look, I'm working with Meg Ryan. I've never done this before, but she's doing amazing work. You should audition her.”

Sandra Seacat

Interceding on behalf of her persistently typecast student, as quoted by director Jane Campion in "Cut to Darkness: Meg Ryan, survivor, pushes beyond "America's sweetheart" in a raw new film" http://articles.latimes.com/2003/oct/05/entertainment/ca-schruers5/2 by Fred Schruers, in The Los Angeles Times (October 5, 2003)

“The real thing she wanted was to play women with real depth, and a challenge, and something that she could resonate with – women that had intelligence and strength, and maturity and passion. […] She's very close to her family – her parents, and her sisters, and her brother; very, very bonded. At some point she became aware that this is where her roots are. […] She was always a wonderful mother. And it didn't make any difference how difficult the scene was, after the meal, Jessica spent that lunchtime with Shura, and was totally into Shura. […] Anyone would be attracted to Sam, I would think. He's a very intelligent person and a very sweet person, first; and then he's so talented; and, on top of that, he looks great. He has a look like a pioneer, and that's very exciting. Maybe not for everybody, but it certainly would be for Jessica.”

Sandra Seacat

Commenting, respectively, on Jessica Lange's participation in Postman Always Rings Twice, on her decision to purchase land in Minnesota, on the absolute priority placed on parenting throughout the intense Frances shoot, and on the beginning of Lange's relationship with Sam Shepard; as heard in "Jessica Lange: On Her Own Terms," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KvxVFiDVls on A&E's Biography; broadcast November 26, 2001

Women , Family , Intelligence , Thinking

“I have the utmost respect for her because, even as an established actress, she still comes to class. She still works on developing herself as an artist.”

Sandra Seacat

On Laura Dern; as heard in the Laura Dern episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGmZx1-eZrU&t=307 of Intimate Portrait; broadcast February 16, 1999