A Good Year For Me Is When

There Is An Access To... People Can Now Afford Very High Quality Technology, Where You Can Have A Very Good Reproduction Of A Large Picture On A Large Screen At Home. People Go Out Less. There's All Kinds Of Reasons. I Don't Know That It's Going To Stay That Way But, I Think Also, We've Got To Start Making Better Movies.

It Doesn't Matter How Much Faith You Have Or Don't Have [in Aliens]. I Just Don't Buy The Idea That We're Alone. There's Got To Be Some Form Of Life Out There.

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.

The Time It Would Take Me To Write A Screenplay It Would Take Me The Time To Make Two Films. I Would Rather Make The Movies And I'm A Better Moviemaker Than I A Would Be Writer.

I Spend A Lot Of My Time Just Developing Material; Or The Company Does. That Material Can Come From A Book, Can Come From A Newspaper, Can Come From A Discussion And Sometimes It Can Come From A Script That Got Passed Over And Is Floating Around.