"I'm going to ignore these simplistic questions & stick with the ones that are actually decent brain teasers."
Its not that its a brain teaser, its just that I don't look at behind the scenes.
I do know about the movie itself. The exact words of Ash in Alien when he was talking in a reattached from a decapitated state:
Ash "Yes I can hear."
Ripley: "What was your special order?"
Ash "You read it, I thought it was clear."
Ripley: "What was it?"
Ash: "Bring back life form, priority one, rescinded."
Parker: "What about our lives, you son of a bitch!"
Ash: "I repeat, all other priorities rescinded."
Ripley: "How do we kill it Ash? There has got to be a way, how, how do we do it?"
Ash: "You can't"
Parker: "Thats bullshit!"
Ash: "You still don't understand what your dealing with."
Ash: "The perfect organism, its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility."
"You admire it?"
Ash: "I admire its purity. A survivor unclouded by its conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality."
Parker: "Well I don't... Ive heard enough of this I'm asking you to pull the plug."
Ash: "Last word, I can't lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies."
Ripley: *Pulls the plug........*
Ash: "I can't lie to you about your chances"
in space...
no one...
can hear you scream...