Quote: Keanu thought he was Bill and I thought I was Ted. Then the assistant came out, and it was the opposite. Keanu just went gray, I said, "What's wrong?" 'And he said "I really wanted to be Bill. [Alex Winter]
Quote: Again, I don't have a high and mighty attitude about what I do, these just happen to be the kind of movies I want to make. [Alex Winter]
Quote: I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it. [Alex Winter]
Quote: I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. [Alex Winter]
Quote: I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade. [Alex Winter]
Quote: My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin. [Alex Winter]
Quote: 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. [Alex Winter]
Quote: Keanu and I jokingly, cause he's still a really close friend of mine, say maybe when we're both 40 we'll do one. [Alex Winter]
Quote: 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. [Alex Winter]
Quote: We're in a time right now where there are so many pretty boy movies and TV shows out, that most of the actors that are in their late 20's are coming from those beefcake TV roles and they just don't have the chops. [Alex Winter]
Quote: Looking for legitimacy as an actor, I wasn't. [Alex Winter]
Quote: But he isn't exactly sure what the future holds. In the short run, he is writing another script and has talked with Reeves about collaborating again.] I'm happy to just shoot ads and not make another movie for another four years, ... Ideally I'd like to do choice things ... but I'd like to do a lot of them. [Alex Winter]
Quote: 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. [Alex Winter]
Quote: They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. [Alex Winter]
Quote: We do live in a time, you know, it's the Land of McDonald's - mediocrity rules. [Alex Winter]
Quote: What an old actor will do for money. [Alex Winter]
Quote: 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. [Alex Winter]
Quote: You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, 'cause that's just the experience that I want to get out of it. [Alex Winter]
Quote: Considering we always wanted to make something that was very anti-establishment, the fact is, the film's been seen by a lot of people. [Alex Winter]
Quote: 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.? [Alex Winter]
Quote: 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. [Alex Winter]
Quote: That's the funny thing about Fever, which has been a kind of thorn in our side, although I don't think The Sixth Sense had even come out yet when we shot the movie. My film is so not a whodunit, and it so doesn't have a big surprise ending. [Alex Winter]
Quote: 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. [Alex Winter]
Quote: The talent, the technical facilities, and the intelligence of the people - I just love London. [Alex Winter]
Quote: 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. [Alex Winter]