Alex Winter Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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 nowadays, that will change everything. and it's only just beginning.

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#5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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

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#13. 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.

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. I actually did use to sell shoes.

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#17. 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.

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#18. I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

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#19. I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

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#20. 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.

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

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#22. I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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.

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

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#26. I'm really influenced by so many different things.

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

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

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

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#30. 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.

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#31. 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.

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

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