How Can You Look At The Galaxy

I Do Like To Make Films With A Political Theme, But Sometimes It's Nice Simply To Make People Laugh. That's The Hardest Thing To Do In Fact.

In My View, The Only Way To See A Film Remains The Way The Filmmaker Intended: Inside A Large Movie Theater With Great Sound And Pristine Picture.

It Goes Back A Long Way. I Wanted To Make Tristan + Isolde As My Second Movie. My First Movie Was The Duellists. And I Was Standing In A Very Romantic Part Of France Looking Around Me Thinking, "my God, This Would Be Perfect For Tristan," And To Cut A Long Story Short It Never Happened Because I Did Alien Instead.

Same Thing With Film, By The Time You've Finished Shooting And You've Really Been Into Everything, You've Touched Up Everything In The Editing Room. You've Gone In There And Taken Little Bits From Everything.

I Think Going Into Space Would Be Like Going Deep Into The Ocean, Like 5,000 Meters Down. When You Go Down That Far, It's Just Awfully Black. There's Not Much There Except Mud And Some Particles. I Imagine Space Would Be A Similar Thing. The Only Difference Is You're Hoping To Bump Into Some Sort Of Intelligent Extraterritorial Being.