Alex Winter quotes

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)

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

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I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

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I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

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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.

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I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

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I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

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Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

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I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

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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.

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I get very driven by certain themes and ideas. (Alex Winter)

I actually did use to sell shoes.

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My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

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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.

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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.

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Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

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Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

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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.

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It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

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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.

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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)

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.

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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.

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They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

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You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, 'cause that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

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Alex Winter

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Photo: Max Morse, CC BY 2.0

Occupation: American Actor
Born: July 17, 1965
Quotes count: 29

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