Quotes from Alex Winter

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 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.

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.

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

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.

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.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

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.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

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.

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.