Alex Winter Quotes (47 Quotes)

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

Considering we always wanted to make something that was very anti-establishment, the fact is, the film's been seen by a lot of people.

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.

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.

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

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

We do live in a time, you know, it's the Land of McDonald's - mediocrity rules.

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

I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.

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.

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.

I'm a huge Python fan.

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

Again, I don't have a high and mighty attitude about what I do, these just happen to be the kind of movies I want to make.

I think my first and foremost advice is to have a very realistic understanding of what making movies is how much work it is, how unglamorous it is, how much tenacity you have to have.

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.

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.

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.

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

And it really doesn't matter if you want to make mainstream movies - I think make the movies you want to make.

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.

Keanu thought he was Bill and I thought I was Ted. Then the assistant came out, and it was the opposite. Keanu just went gray, I said, What's wrong 'And he said I really wanted to be Bill

But he isn't exactly sure what the future holds. In the short run, he is writing another script and has talked with Reeves about collaborating again. I'm happy to just shoot ads and not make another movie for another four years, ... Ideally I'd like to do choice things ... but I'd like to do a lot of them.

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

I'm kind of happy to say I make weird movies - that part of it I'm really proud of.

The talent, the technical facilities, and the intelligence of the people - I just love London.

Keanu and I jokingly, cause he's still a really close friend of mine, say maybe when we're both 40 we'll do one.

I think it's the greatest art form in the world, so I'm always encouraging to people.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

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.

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

I actually did use to sell shoes.

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.

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

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

We're in a time right now where there are so many pretty boy movies and TV shows out, that most of the actors that are in their late 20's are coming from those beefcake TV roles and they just don't have the chops.

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.

That's the funny thing about Fever, which has been a kind of thorn in our side, although I don't think The Sixth Sense had even come out yet when we shot the movie. My film is so not a whodunit, and it so doesn't have a big surprise ending.

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.

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

I like Kubrick a lot, Coppola, Lynch - I guess my favorite modern director is David Lynch.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

What an old actor will do for money.

I mean, there are certain Spielberg movies I really like, but clearly they're very different directors and I much prefer Kubrick to Spielberg.

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.

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

Knowing that it is highly competitive, and I'm not the first person to say this, but good stories do tend to get made.