Alex Cox Quotes

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

Motorcycle, Indian, Policeman

The life of a repo man is always intense.
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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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Result, Level, Says

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

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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Time, Film, State

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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Politics, Greatest, Everybody

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.
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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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Love, Another, Film

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
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Good, 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.
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Down, Through, Genius

It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.
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Nice, Show, Eccentrics

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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Else, Everyone, Pink

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

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

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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Time, Greatest, Language

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

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

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

The future is always a dystopia in movies.
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The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
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Greatest, Play, Crime

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, Problem, Big

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

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: British

Born: December 15, 1954

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