Film Quotes by Alex Cox

Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the…

— Alex Cox

You can't change the system through violence.

— Alex Cox

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the…

— Alex Cox

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…

— Alex Cox

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

— Alex Cox

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

— Alex Cox

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…

— Alex Cox

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

— Alex Cox

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

— Alex Cox

Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want…

— Alex Cox

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

— Alex Cox

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

— Alex Cox

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

— Alex Cox

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…

— Alex Cox

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…

— Alex Cox