Quotes by Alex Winter

About Alex Winter:

Alexander Ross "Alex" Winter is an English-born American actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. in the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its 1991 sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. He is also well known for his role as Marko in the 1987 cult classic The Lost Boys, and for co-writing, co-directing and starring in the 1993 film Freaked.
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I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

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.

Alex Winter

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

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

Alex Winter

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

Alex Winter

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

Alex Winter

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

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

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

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

Alex Winter

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

Alex Winter

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

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

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

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

Alex Winter

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

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

Alex Winter

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

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

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

Alex Winter

Author Bio

  • NameAlex Winter
  • DescriptionBritish actor
  • BornJuly 17, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Screenwriter