Alex Winter
Alex Winter
Alexander Ross "Alex" Winteris an English-born American actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. in the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its 1991 sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. He is also well known for his role as Marko in the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys, and for co-writing, co-directing and starring in the 1993 film Freaked...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth17 July 1965
CityLondon, England
CountryUnited States of America
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.
The talent, the technical facilities, and the intelligence of the people - I just love London.
I think my first and foremost advice is to have a very realistic understanding of what making movies is; how much work it is, how unglamorous it is, how much tenacity you have to have.
We do live in a time, you know, it's the Land of McDonald's - mediocrity rules.
What an old actor will do for money.
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.
I'm really influenced by so many different things.
I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.