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
law study ministers
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
study
I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.
love
I'd love to make another film in Mexico.
experience
So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.
crew japan japanese series speak television though
I did a television series in Japan this year, which was really fun, even though it's working with a Japanese crew and I don't speak Japanese.
attention language pay watch
That really made me think about the critics. They don't watch films, they don't actually pay attention to the language of films.
based hope spanish
We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.
mexican nicaragua made
And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.
real imagination stories
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.
squares littles language
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
thinking hollywood
I don't think about Hollywood at all.
kitchen genius steps
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.
directors actors good-actors
I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
film compass wells
No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.