Alex Cox Quotes

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

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The future is always a dystopia in movies... view

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You can't change the system through violence... view

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Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film... view

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We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd... view

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Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done... view

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Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures... view

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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

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The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king... view

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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

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Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked... view

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So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since... view

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You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation... view

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I did not find my studies particularly enthralling... view

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The life of a repo man is always intense... view

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And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua... view

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One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister... view

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Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square... view

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I don't think about Hollywood at all... view

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I'd love to make another film in Mexico... view

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I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say... view

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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... view

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And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result... view

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No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well... view

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It's always nice when the eccentrics show up... view

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It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now... view

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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

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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

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