Alex Winter Quotes on Movies (12 Quotes)

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.