Alex Winter Movie Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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.