Alex Winter
You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, 'cause that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.
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.
What an old actor will do for money.
We're in a time right now where there are so many pretty boy movies and TV shows out, that most of the actors that are in their late 20's are coming from those beefcake TV roles and they just don't have the chops.
We do live in a time, you know, it's the Land of McDonald's - mediocrity rules.
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.
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.
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 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.
The talent, the technical facilities, and the intelligence of the people - I just love London.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.
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.
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 and I jokingly, cause he's still a really close friend of mine, say maybe when we're both 40 we'll do one.
It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.
I'm really influenced by so many different things.