Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.

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.

Yeah, we're working on Blade Runner 2 right now - that will happen sooner or later.

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.

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

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.