I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

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.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.

My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

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.