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Alex Winter
American
Actor
About the author
I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Trying
I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#People
#Eyes
I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Will
#Saying
#Movies
#Sensibility
I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Thinking
#Movies
#states
#Dream
I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Want
#Movies
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Architecture
#Music
The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Film
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#World
#Movies
Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#People
#End
#Culture
I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Music
I actually did use to sell shoes.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Death
#Movies
#Fight
Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Problems
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Mind
#Funny
After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Years
#Living
#London
#Change
#Production
I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Love
#People
#Cinema
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Fun
#Movies
I'm really influenced by so many different things.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Film
#Thinking
#Sound
#Detail
It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Career
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Culture
#Balance
#Movies
#Order
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#American
#Movies
#Horror
#Solaris
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#End
#Movies
#Investment
#Commerce
That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#World
#Night
My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#People
#Favorite
Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Time
#Funny
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
Alex Winter,
American
Actor
#Ideas