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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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Alex Winter
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 17
Actor
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London
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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 take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
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Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
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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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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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