Alex Winter quotes:

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 it.

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

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

I actually did use to sell shoes.

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

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

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

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.