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
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.
I think it's the greatest art form in the world, so I'm always encouraging to people.
We do live in a time, you know, it's the Land of McDonald's - mediocrity rules.
Knowing that it is highly competitive, and I'm not the first person to say this, but good stories do tend to get made.
Keanu thought he was Bill and I thought I was Ted. Then the assistant came out, and it was the opposite. Keanu just went gray, I said, "What's wrong?" 'And he said "I really wanted to be Bill
Keanu and I jokingly, cause he's still a really close friend of mine, say maybe when we're both 40 we'll do one.
Looking for legitimacy as an actor, I wasn't,
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.
I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of 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.
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.