How Can You Look At The Galaxy

What You Do, Is You Gradually Become More And More Experienced, And More And More Realistic About Dramatic Tolerance, I.e. About How Long The Play Should Be.

I Think Movies Are Getting Dumber, Actually. Where It Used To Be 50/50, Now It`s 3% Good, 97% Stupid.

There's Nothing Really Original. Alien Was A B-movie. Five Directors Passed On It Before Me. Because I Was Into Heavy Metal, I Read It, And Thought, "wow, I Want To Do This." I Was On A Plane To Hollywood In 22 Hours. It Was A B-movie And Was Elevated To An A-plus Movie By Sheer Good Taste.

I Want To Make Films About The Human Condition, What We're Doing To The World Or Ourselves.

Same Thing With Film, By The Time You've Finished Shooting And You've Really Been Into Everything, You've Touched Up Everything In The Editing Room. You've Gone In There And Taken Little Bits From Everything.