Alex Cox
Alex Cox
Alexander Coxis a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts. Cox experienced success early in his career with Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, but since the release and commercial failure of Walker, he has focused his career in independent films...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 December 1954
dystopia
The future is always a dystopia in movies.
law study ministers
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
careers negative hollywood
Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
writing conservative language
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.
motorcycle reservations policemen
You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.
sorry stuff way
Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
nice nice-day shows
It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.
study
I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.
japan mexico film
Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.
cowboy annoyed one-day
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.
politics yes
That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.
pick review saw shooting style
But I never saw any review that actually analysed the shooting style of Goodfellas appropriately and they would just pick up on this one long take.
allowed people says wars
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.
black figured white
And I also figured out that way I can do a film in black and white because I've never been able to do a film in black and white.