I Love Different Themes, Different Venues, Different

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.

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 Always Say To People When I'm Trying To Get Something Going, Bringing On Other Producers Or Other Directors, "you Can Think Of 95 Reasons Why Not To Make A Movie. You've Got To Address Why You Want To Make The Movie And Get It Done. Just Do It." I Tend To Live By That Rule.

Never Be Put Off By Anything Because Failure Teaches You Something.

It's Everything And I Always Make Decisions About The Cast.