Alex Cox quotes

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. (Alex Cox)
Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures. View quote
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I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say. View quote
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You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation. View quote
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The future is always a dystopia in movies. View quote
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The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king. View quote
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The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem. View quote
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You can't change the system through violence. View quote
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I did not find my studies particularly enthralling. View quote
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Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked. View quote
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In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius. (Alex Cox)
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister. View quote
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No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well. View quote
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And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua. View quote
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Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist. View quote
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I don't think about Hollywood at all. View quote
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Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat. View quote
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Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film. View quote
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It's always nice when the eccentrics show up. View quote
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Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings. View quote
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Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done. (Alex Cox)
We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd. View quote
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The life of a repo man is always intense. View quote
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So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since. View quote
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That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them. View quote
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Alex Cox

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Photo: hinnk, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: British Director
Born: December 15, 1954
Quotes count: 27

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