Alex Winter Quotes
"I get very driven by certain themes and ideas."
- Alex Winter
(Related: Ideas)
"I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut."
- Alex Winter
(Related: People, Eyes)
"I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade."
- Alex Winter
(Related: Trying)
"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
(Related: Movies, Saying, Sensibility, Will)
"I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking."
- Alex Winter
(Related: Movies, Dream, states, Thinking)
"I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen."
- Alex Winter
(Related: Movies, Want)
"I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you."
- Alex Winter
(Related: 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
(Related: Film)
"I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it."
- Alex Winter
(Related: Movies, World)
"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
(Related: People, Culture, End)
"I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos."
- Alex Winter
(Related: Music)
"I actually did use to sell shoes."
- Alex Winter
"Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies."
- Alex Winter
(Related: Death, Movies, Fight)
"Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing."
- Alex Winter
(Related: Problems)
"Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original."
- 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
(Related: Funny, Mind)
"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
(Related: Change, Living, London, Production, Years)
"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
(Related: Love, People, Cinema)
"They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em."
- Alex Winter
(Related: Movies, Fun)
"I'm really influenced by so many different things."
- Alex Winter
"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
(Related: Detail, Film, Sound, Thinking)
"It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career."
- Alex Winter
(Related: 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
(Related: Movies, Balance, Culture, 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
(Related: Movies, American, 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
(Related: Movies, Commerce, End, Investment)
"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
(Related: Night, World)
"My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin."
- Alex Winter
(Related: People, Favorite)