Oh really?

[Ratchetcomand]

He thought his alien was close to Giger's?

LOL his post made laugh when i read what he said.

He also makes mention to his pyramid designs being based on the ship in Predator 2

Really? I thought his pyramid design was based on the early version of Alien.

[SM]

The pyramind concept with heiroglyphics was.  My memory is hazy on Predator 2, but I think there are some similarities with the pyramind aesthetic.

[Private Hudson]

No not really, it was more like piping of some sort.

[Uncanny Antman]

I believe he's referring to the obvious Mayan influence on P2's production design.

[YutaniDitch]

Old interview. Really old. But look at this:
http://www.worldoffandom.com/avp/avp.htm

PWSA:

For example, in AVP you're not just free to change the design of the
Alien, nor would I want to. I think that where the Alien franchise has
attempted to do that the movies have been less successful. I was not a
big fan of the kind of change of the look of the Alien in "Alien3," for
example, or the way the alien look in "Alien: Resurrection." Creatively,
we went back to the original Giger design of the Alien, which is kind of
like the classic form from Ridley Scott's movie. So we didn't get to
play with the look of the Alien, and I don't think that is a bad thing.

Yeah. Right.

One of the things that assisted us is my insistence
to returning to the classic designs to a lot of the creatures. I wanted
to go back to Ridley Scott's Giger look for the Alien. I want to stick
with a classic look for the Predator. I think if we had wanted to
redesign the Alien and redesigned Predator, create something like the
"newborn" that appeared in "Alien: Resurrection," there may have been a
much longer lead-time on the film. Because we were going from original
classic designs, and then working with a lot of the people who
manufactured those original classic designs, that certainly did help us
speed up the process a little. We work with Tom Woodruff and Alec Gillis
of ADI. Tom has been the guy in the Alien suit for the past three
movies. They built the aliens and had built an Alien Queen, so for them
it was just a matter of looking through the old blueprints.

HOW OLD...? Because that might have been what he wanted in the first place, and FOX, in their eternal wisdom, may have wanted and demanded something else entirely...

And the SOURCE must be credible, otherwise this may be another 'PWSA said this but after all, he didn't' kinda thing...

[D88M]

LOL

care to share?

It´s funny to me what P.A. says

[Alienseseses]

Old interview. Really old. But look at this:
http://www.worldoffandom.com/avp/avp.htm

PWSA:

For example, in AVP you're not just free to change the design of the
Alien, nor would I want to. I think that where the Alien franchise has
attempted to do that the movies have been less successful. I was not a
big fan of the kind of change of the look of the Alien in "Alien3," for
example, or the way the alien look in "Alien: Resurrection." Creatively,
we went back to the original Giger design of the Alien, which is kind of
like the classic form from Ridley Scott's movie. So we didn't get to
play with the look of the Alien, and I don't think that is a bad thing.

Yeah. Right.

One of the things that assisted us is my insistence
to returning to the classic designs to a lot of the creatures. I wanted
to go back to Ridley Scott's Giger look for the Alien. I want to stick
with a classic look for the Predator. I think if we had wanted to
redesign the Alien and redesigned Predator, create something like the
"newborn" that appeared in "Alien: Resurrection," there may have been a
much longer lead-time on the film. Because we were going from original
classic designs, and then working with a lot of the people who
manufactured those original classic designs, that certainly did help us
speed up the process a little. We work with Tom Woodruff and Alec Gillis
of ADI. Tom has been the guy in the Alien suit for the past three
movies. They built the aliens and had built an Alien Queen, so for them
it was just a matter of looking through the old blueprints.

HOW OLD...? Because that might have been what he wanted in the first place, and FOX, in their eternal wisdom, may have wanted and demanded something else entirely...

And the SOURCE must be credible, otherwise this may be another 'PWSA said this but after all, he didn't' kinda thing...

From slightly before the release of the film.