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.
Alex Cox

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

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.
Alex Cox

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

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.
Alex Cox

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

I'd love to make another film in Mexico.
Alex Cox

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

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

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

It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now.
Alex Cox

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The future is always a dystopia in movies.
Alex Cox

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