Quotes from Alex Cox

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The more you drive the less intelligent you are.

I don't really watch my own old films, unlike Ronald Reagan, who sat in the White House and reran Knute Rockne — All American [1940] again and again. That way madness lies — though I must say, of my own films ...

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

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.

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.

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I'd love to make another film in Mexico.

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.

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