Valerie Weiss

About Valerie

• From a very young age, she was acutely aware of how short life was.
• Realized that if she became an actress, she'd get to experience all kinds of careers in one lifetime.
• Then, in tenth grade, she fell in love with biology; between science and the arts, she felt like she could study anything.
• When it came down to it, she knew that filmmaking was her first choice; she loves it because she can tell any story in any field.
• But she also made herself go through her Ph.D. studies in science because she never wanted to regret choosing one over the other.
• She went to Harvard and did her Ph.D. in biophysics and biochemistry, and while she was writing her dissertation, she shot her first film.
• Recently, she made a romantic comedy film called Losing Control about a young female scientist; felt that finally combined all her passions.
• Says you have to ask yourself if there's one thing you'd be willing to give everything else up for, and if there is, you have to go after it.