Alex Cox Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I don't like controversy.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.
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I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.
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I really believe that parents need to know they are shaping the future of their children.
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Our future is just a past yet to arrive, our past a future come and gone.
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The future is always a dystopia in movies.
