So out went my carefully constructed motivations for all the principal — Alien 3

"Alien3 is hopeless, scarfed in a rusty gloom thats light years away from the sheen of a good blockbuster; no wonder that American audiences soon learnt to stay away. It reads like a suicide note, a pulp version of Celine: Id rather be nothing, or I need you to kill me . . . Im dead anyway. All three movies have been dank and dour, of course, and that is their triumph. After years of brushed chrome and spacious command rooms, along came Alien, and soon the lights were going out all over space. It was the first film to suggest that a spaceship was just that, a ship in space - a wet, primitive hulk, cavernous yet cramped, with all manner of malevolence shivering behind its timbers. The new film keeps up the claustrophobia but turns it inwards, too, putting the squeeze on the souls of the inhabitants and wringing the fight out of them."

"Our worst fears have come true. Its back!"

"This time its hiding in the most terrifying place of all..."

"I saw the rough cut of the film, uncut, and there were some scenes in there that were pretty gross. There was an autopsy scene on the girl [Newt] and I like certain gore in the films. I do it [professionally], and it made me sick. It really grossed me out and I remember people got up and left, walked out of the theatre and I was just thinking, This will never be in the film. They cant show this stuff. It was just too much I thought. And when the film came out, it wasnt in the film."

"Look, it wasnt a nightmare, despite what you may have read or heard elsewhere. But it certainly wasnt an easy shoot. What was on the screen was quite removed from what was in the script. But, with that said, I dont regret that I was a part of it. I mean, I knew going into Alien 3 that this was a big franchise picture – and there are a lot of cooks in the kitchen on these things."

"Three times the suspense. Three times the danger. Three times the terror."