"In the days of Blade Runner and Alien, there were what I would call matte paintings. We did pretty well with those paintings with Blade Runner, but when you look at them today you can see the seams. In those days, it was good enough, and digital effects didnât exist. To do Alien, I literally had to have a guy in a black rubber suit. Thatâs why the film is like Jaws, where you donât see much of the shark, and you donât really want to look that closely. In Alien, the scariest of all the films in that series, you donât see much of the monster, mostly because I was so limited in what I could do."
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