Alex Cox

“You can't change the system through violence.”

“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.”

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

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

“We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.”

“The future is always a dystopia in movies.”

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

“I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.”

“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.”

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

“The life of a repo man is always intense.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.”

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

“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.”

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

“Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.”

“You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.”