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I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.

I would love to have been born in the '60s.

I like being in the '60s.

And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.

The '60s were an amazing time.

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

I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'

One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.