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I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

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Alex Winter
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 17
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
London
England
Alexander Ross Winter
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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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I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.
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I actually did use to sell shoes.
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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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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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It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.
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I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.
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I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
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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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My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.
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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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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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I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.
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Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
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I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
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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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They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.
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Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
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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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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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