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When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens.

I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.

I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to moment in our lives, and in our frenzy, as something that's as out there as alien life.

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

Normally I avoid movies where the aliens look like humans. It's cheesy.

Imagine if the dinosaurs had tried picturing the rulers of their planet 100 million years hence. They'd undoubtedly envision these creatures as... dinosaurs! Conceiving of aliens as polished versions of ourselves is appealing, but unconvincing.

I love playing an alien.