Alex Cox Quotes
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We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.
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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 mental state of the protagonist.
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Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
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The life of a repo man is always intense.
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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 critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
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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 pink cowboy hat.
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So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.
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Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.
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That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.
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I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
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Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
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The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
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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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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 killed as a result.
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I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.
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You can't change the system through violence.
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The future is always a dystopia in movies.
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And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.
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You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.
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I'd love to make another film in Mexico.
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No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.
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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.
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Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.
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Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.