It was the first horror movie I'd seen where I didn’t think the people in it would look out for each other," he said. "The way they related to each other frightened me as much as the Alien because usually there's a safe haven of, 'Well, we've got each others' backs.'  And they didn't seem like they did.

...it would bother him that so many teen-oriented movies and television shows ignored this seemingly simple piece of knowledge and treated every teacher as a joke, every parent as clueless.

Villains don't think they're evil.  Villains don't believe they're the bad guy.  Villains believe in what they're doing.  Villains think they're righteous, and that's what makes them dangerous.... There's a trap in wringing your hands together and going 'Mwahaha' - that's not villainy.  The villainy to be afraid of is the villainy you don't see coming.  He's sweet, he's pleasant and polite.  He sneaks up on you.  And you don't know he's a villain until he's got a knife buried in you.  Now that's a villain.

I distrust anyone who wants to ban something "for the good of the public."

This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths - just because they can't think of an original idea of their own...