Alex Cox Quotes

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Alex Cox

Profession : Director

Birth : December 15, 1954

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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The future is always a dystopia in movies.

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

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The life of a repo man is always intense.

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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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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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It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.

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

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

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

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I don't think about Hollywood at all.

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

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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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I'd love to make another film in Mexico.

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