Top 31 Quotes & Sayings by Alex Cox

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British director Alex Cox.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Alexander B. H. Cox is an English film director, screenwriter, actor, nonfiction author and broadcaster. Cox experienced success early in his career with Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, but since the release and commercial failure of Walker, his career has moved towards independent films. Cox received a co-writer credit for the screenplay of Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) for previous work on the script before it was rewritten by Gilliam.

British - Director | Born: December 15, 1954

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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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I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

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The future is always a dystopia in movies.

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

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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 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.

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

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

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It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.

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

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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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I don't think about Hollywood at all.

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I'd love to make another film in Mexico.

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

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

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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.

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The life of a repo man is always intense.

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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.

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That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.

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

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

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

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You can't change the system through violence.

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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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Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want it to be seen by an audience. In theory, especially in the independent world, ironically, you do stand a chance of making a bit of money if the film gets distribution.

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I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

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The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing.

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My film is intentionally political. And I think that's really the issue.

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