Alex Cox famous quotes

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

#Cowboy #Annoyed #One Day

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

#Japan #Mexico #Film

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.
-- Alex Cox

#Study

It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.
-- Alex Cox

#Nice #Nice Day #Shows

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

#Sorry #Stuff #Way

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

#Motorcycle #Reservations #Policemen

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

#Writing #Conservative #Language

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
-- Alex Cox

#Careers #Hollywood #Negative

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

#Law #Study #Prime

The future is always a dystopia in movies.
-- Alex Cox

#Dystopia

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

#Kings #Play #Murder

You can't change the system through violence.
-- Alex Cox

#Violence

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

#Film #Compass #Wells

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
-- Alex Cox

#Directors #Actors

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

#Kitchen #Cameras #Genius

I don't think about Hollywood at all.
-- Alex Cox

#Thinking #Hollywood

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
-- Alex Cox

#Squares #Littles #Language

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

#Real #Imagination #Stories

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.
-- Alex Cox

#Mexican #Nicaragua #Made