David Yarovesky recalls the years he honed his craft as a music video director and looks at the big swing he's taking with the superhero horror film: "I got angry reading the script, because I imagined a world in which I didn't get to make it."

As the sci-fi classic turns 40, the filmmaker recalls doubling his budget in a single meeting with Fox, Warren Beatty recommending Sigourney Weaver as Ripley and how that chestburster scene almost went completely wrong.