Quotes by Alex Cox

About Alex Cox:

Alexander Cox is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts.[citation needed] Cox experienced success early in his career with Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, but since the release and commercial failure of Walker, he has focused his career in independent films.[citation needed]
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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.

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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.

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

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You can't change the system through violence.

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

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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.

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

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

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The future is always a dystopia in movies.

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The life of a repo man is always intense.

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I'd love to make another film in Mexico.

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

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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.

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It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.

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I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

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

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

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I don't think about Hollywood at all.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAlex Cox
  • DescriptionBritish film director
  • BornDecember 15, 1954
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Screenwriter