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

  Squares, Littles, Language

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

  Alex Cox

  Nice, Nice Day, Shows

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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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  Hate, Cowboy, Annoyed

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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.

  Alex Cox

  Art, Independent, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

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  Motorcycle, Reservations, Policemen

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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• The future is always a dystopia in movies.

  Alex Cox

  Dystopia

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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

  Alex Cox

  Directors, Actors, Good Actors

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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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.

  Alex Cox

  Revolutionary, Punk, Surrealism

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Real, Imagination, Stories

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January, 2003.

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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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  Writing, Conservative, Language

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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

  Alex Cox

  Careers, Hollywood, Negative

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

  Alex Cox

  Thinking, Political, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Alex Cox

  Kings, Play, Murder

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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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  Kitchen, Cameras, Genius

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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

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  Japan, Mexico, Film

  "Interview with Alex Cox and Tod Davies". Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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

  Alex Cox

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

  Alex Cox

  Study

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

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  Film, Compass, Wells

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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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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  Sorry, Stuff, Way

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• I don't think about Hollywood at all.

  Alex Cox

  Thinking, Hollywood

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• You can't change the system through violence.

  Alex Cox

  Violence, Can't Change

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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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  Law, Study, Prime

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

  Alex Cox

  Mexican, Nicaragua, Made

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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