Once more, since I can't find anywhere where I posted this

EMPIRE: You made Alien and Blade Runner consecutively. Were you a sci-fan at that time? SCOTT: No. Blade Runner and Alien were more by accident than plan. I had done a film called The Duelists, so I was baffled why some bright spark would ask me to do a science-fiction movie. The Duelists won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. But the idea of science-fiction came out of the blue. I'd seen Star Wars and that had knocked me sideways with all my plans. I was planning to do Tristan And Isolde in France, and I thought I would try to convert it into another arena. So I sat down for about five weeks and redrew a plan to do Tristan And Isolde as futuristic. When I was doing that, I was already carrying myself forward into science-fiction, partly to do with the imspiration from Jean Giraud Moebius and his marvellous original illustrations in magazines such as Metal Hurlant, and all those publications which I used to look at and hide from my children, because they were so violent and sexual. They were adult comic strips, but they didn't pull any punches,. I thought, that's the way to go. You should not have 'pulled any punches' with Prometheus, Mr. Ridley Scott, it's too late now, but for the sequel, you should abide by this, it will give your story that vitality. Thank you.