Top 32 Quotes & Sayings by Alex Winter

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Alex Winter.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Alexander Ross Winter is a British-American actor and filmmaker. He played the slacker Bill in the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequels Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020). He is also known for his role as Marko in the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys; co-writing, co-directing, and starring in the 1993 film Freaked; and directing documentaries in the 2010s.

American - Actor | Born: July 17, 1965

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I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

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

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

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

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 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 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 think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

Alex Winter

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

Alex Winter

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

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

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

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

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

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

Alex Winter

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

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

Alex Winter

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

Alex Winter

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

Alex Winter

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

Alex Winter

I actually did use to sell shoes.

Alex Winter

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

Alex Winter

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

Alex Winter

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

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

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

Alex Winter

I have been interested in global web-based communities and emerging technologies since the mid 80's. There is a revolution occurring in global culture at the moment, that will change everything. And it's only just beginning.

Alex Winter

One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.

Alex Winter

I don't think BitCoin has ever been anything but a legitimate enterprise. Currency is currency, it's used for good and ill.

Alex Winter