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Alex Cox
British
Director
About the author
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.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Time
#Conservative
#Writer
#English
#Language
#Shakespeare
The future is always a dystopia in movies.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Movies
#Future
You can't change the system through violence.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Violence
#Change
Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Film
We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Hope
#Play
#Tragedy
Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Hollywood
#Career
#Negative
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.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Imagination
#Poverty
#Corporations
The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Play
#Crime
#Shakespeare
#Murder
That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Politics
Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Saying
#Pleasure
#Projects
So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Experience
#Beginning
You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
The life of a repo man is always intense.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Life
#Man
And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Now
#Law
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#English
#Language
#Shakespeare
#Politics
I don't think about Hollywood at all.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Hollywood
I'd love to make another film in Mexico.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Love
#Film
I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Sense
#Actor
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.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Kitchen
#Genius
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.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#People
#Result
No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Film
It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
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.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Now
#War
#Pretty
#News
#Afghanistan
#Pornography
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.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Day
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.
Alex Cox,
British
Director
#Time
#Film
#Style
#State