 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. I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
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I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.
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I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.
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My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.
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I mean, there are certain Spielberg movies I really like, but clearly they`re very different directors and I much prefer Kubrick to Spielberg.
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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.
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I actually did use to sell shoes.
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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.
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After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there`s not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
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I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
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Certain remakes are great. Carpenter`s The Thing is better than the original.
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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.
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I`m really influenced by so many different things.
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I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I`m not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.
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Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
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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.
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Considering we always wanted to make something that was very anti-establishment, the fact is, the film`s been seen by a lot of people.
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It`s hard for a hit to be bad for your career.
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I`m one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.
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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.
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I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that`s different than you imagine it.
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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.
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Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.
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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.
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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.
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They`re innocent movies, and they`re fun movies and there were no pretensions about `em.
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Trivia
He studied Film at college in New York City and starred in a number of plays whilst still a student.
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Attended film school at New York University with Tom Stern. They became good friends and have collaborated on several film projects.
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Son Leroy, born 1998.
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Graduated from Montclair Highschool in 1983. There he attended the school of performing arts.
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When trying out for the parts of Bill and Ted, each actor was paired up with another. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter were paired up, Reeves trying out for the part of Bill while Winter trying out for the part of Ted. They were cast opposite what they tried out for.
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Moved from London to St. Louis when he was 5. There his father, Ross, ran the Mid-American Dance Company, the Midwest's largest modern dance troupe, and his mother, Gregg Mayer, taught dance at Washington University. He has a brother named Stephen.
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Made his musical stage debut at age 10 in the St. Louis Opera production of "Oliver!" starring Vincent Price as Fagin. Alex played one of the urchins.
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Appeared in a couple of Broadway musical productions as a teenager. He was a replacement son Louis in Yul Brynner's revival of "The King and I" in 1978 and the following year played young John Darling in "Peter Pan" starring Sandy Duncan.
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