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Alex Winter [1965-0] American

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Actor

Alexander Ross "Alex" Winter is an English-born American actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. in the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its 1991 sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.

Architecture, Movies

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Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.		101
I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.		102
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.		103
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.	Movies	104
I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.		105
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.		106
I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.		107
It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.		108
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.		109
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.		110
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.		111
I'm really influenced by so many different things.		112
My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.		113
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.		114
I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.		115
I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.		116
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.		117
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.	Architecture	118
I actually did use to sell shoes.		119
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.		120
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.		121
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.		122
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.		123
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.		124
Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.		125
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.		126
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.		201
Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.		202

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