Alex Winter Quotes

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• Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
• 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…
• 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…
• Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.
• I actually did use to sell shoes.
• I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.
• I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
• 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…
• I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
• I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.
• I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
• 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…
• They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
• 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…

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