Alex Cox Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
• I don't think about Hollywood at all.
• 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…
• I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
• No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.
• You can't change the system through violence.
• The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
• The future is always a dystopia in movies.
• One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
• Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
• 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…
• You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.
• Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
• It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.
• I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.
• Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.
• And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.
• So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.

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