THC: Did you approach this project as a human story first, or as a genre film?
DT: I gravitate towards the kind of film that emphasizes the human dimension of the story. The studio originally just wanted big names, but I said, give me serious actors from independent films who haven't been bastardized by glossy films. We could then move the money to the visuals. We just wanted to make it entertaining, so we said, let's have some fun. We could take more chances with this type of budget. The bigger the budget, the less risks the studio is willing to take. More money usually means more people telling you how to spend it, making it into something they recognize. Too much money means you just throw money at all the problems in the movie-you end up trying to find the story in the editing room. But here we had the freedom to take chances and make the most of it. We could take more risks so I said, let's go for it.
THC: Has there been talk of a sequel?
VD: Shit. I am done. Game over!
RM: In the sequel, Fry has alien children.
DT: Yeah, we cut that scene with Fry having sex with an alien...but really, we are just at the joking stage in terms of talking about a sequel.