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Career Quote by Alex Cox

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

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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…

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You can't change the system through violence.

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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…

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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…

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

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I don't think about Hollywood at all.

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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…

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

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

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

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

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If I can beat a proven champion like Canelo, that will take my career to a different level.

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