- John August: Specificity is like one of those terrible traps.
- John August: You can get locked in to be telling so many story points so quickly that it suffocates the moment.
- John August: Everything in Alien breathes and takes a good long time and that's part of the reason why it has such suspense.
- Ashley Miller: This was a lived-in universe that you recognized, it was very naturalistic.
- Ashley Miller: The hero was now the woman.
- Ashley Miller: You know that all bets are off, but you don't even know how far the bets are off.
- John August: Horror film science fiction was never the same.