I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. - Alex Winter
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. - 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
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
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
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
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
I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking. - Alex Winter
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it. - Alex Winter
Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing. - 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
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
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
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