Alex Cox quotes:

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

You can't change the system through violence.

I'd love to make another film in Mexico.

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 future is always a dystopia in movies.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.

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.

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

I don't think about Hollywood at all.

The life of a repo man is always intense.

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

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.

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