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.
I mean, there are certain Spielberg movies I really like, but clearly they're very different directors and I much prefer Kubrick to Spielberg.
I like Kubrick a lot, Coppola, Lynch - I guess my favorite modern director is David Lynch.
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.
I'm kind of happy to say I make weird movies - that part of it I'm really proud of.
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.
What an old actor will do for money.
The talent, the technical facilities, and the intelligence of the people - I just love London.
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.
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.