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 mean, there are certain Spielberg movies I really like, but clearly they're very different directors and I much prefer Kubrick to Spielberg.
I think it's the greatest art form in the world, so I'm always encouraging to people.
I like Kubrick a lot, Coppola, Lynch - I guess my favorite modern director is David Lynch.
Looking for legitimacy as an actor, I wasn't,
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.
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
Knowing that it is highly competitive, and I'm not the first person to say this, but good stories do tend to get made.
And it really doesn't matter if you want to make mainstream movies - I think; make the movies you want to make.
The talent, the technical facilities, and the intelligence of the people - I just love London.
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.
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.
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'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.
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.