Alex Winter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
-- Alex Winter

#Play #Architecture #Novel
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.
-- Alex Winter

#Technology #Community #Culture
I don't think BitCoin has ever been anything but a legitimate enterprise. Currency is currency, it's used for good and ill.
-- Alex Winter

#Thinking #Bitcoin #Currency
One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit.
-- Alex Winter

#Men #Bullshit #Accuracy
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.
-- Alex Winter

#Fun #Ems #Innocence
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.
-- Alex Winter

#Night #Needs #World
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

#Movie #Giving Up #Order
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.
-- Alex Winter

#Movie #Elements #Aliens
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

#Movie #Return #Investment
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

#Movie #Film #Certain
I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
-- Alex Winter

#Movie #Dream #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 tell a joke.
-- Alex Winter

#Time #Jokes
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

#Thinking #People #Culture
My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.
-- Alex Winter

#People #My Favorite #Chaplin
Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
-- Alex Winter

#Movie #Fighting
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.
-- Alex Winter

#Reality #Want
I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.
-- Alex Winter

#Thinking #Want #Filmmaker
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
-- Alex Winter

#Certain #Remakes #Carpenter
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.
-- Alex Winter

#Interesting #Mind #Unbreakable
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

#New York #Years #London
Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.
-- Alex Winter

#Problem #Should #Financing
I actually did use to sell shoes.
-- Alex Winter

#Shoes #Use
I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.
-- Alex Winter

#Video #Tvs #Tv Commercial
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
-- Alex Winter

#Ideas #Driven #Certain
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.
-- Alex Winter

#People #Interesting #Cameras
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
-- Alex Winter

#Different #World #Way
It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.
-- Alex Winter

#Careers

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