"If we hadn't had a really interesting beast, then you'd have had half a movie." Watch director Ridley Scott and actor Yaphet Kotto’s full Q&A from a screening of ALIEN: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT at TIFF ‘03. They get into it all: creature design, the “shaky camera” era, and why Scott rejects the reading of Ripley as a mother/martyr figure. Plus: a dig at STAR TREK, naturally. For more about the Toronto International Film Festival and our year-round programming at TIFF Lightbox, visit http://tiff.net. Subscribe to watch more TIFF Originals: https://www.youtube.com/c/tiff Want more TIFF? Find us here: https://www.instagram.com/tiff_net https://www.tiktok.com/@tiff_net https://www.snapchat.com/add/tiff_net https://twitter.com/tiff_net https://www.pinterest.com/tiffnet/