Alex Winter
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"Alexander Ross "Alex" Winter" is an England/English-born United States/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 cult classic The Lost Boys, and for co-writing, co-directing and starring in the 1993 film Freaked.

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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.

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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.

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

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My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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