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Alexander B. H. Cox (born 15 December 1954) is an English film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author, broadcaster and sometime actor. 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 directed his career towards independent films. Cox received a co-writer credit for the screenplay of Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Vegas (1998) for previous work on the script before it was completely rewritten by Gilliam.

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

Crime, Kings, Murder, Play

My film is intentionally political. And I think that's really the issue.

Film, Intentionally, Issue, Political, Thinking

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.

Conservative, Language, Probably, Writing

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

Enthralling, Particularly, Studies, Study

You can't change the system through violence.

Can'T Change, Change, System, Violence

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

Failed, Punk, Revolutionary, Surrealism, Thought

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

Law, Minister, Prime, Study, Worked

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.

Annoyed, Cowboy, Day, Hate, Justin, Somehow

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

Motorcycle, Policeman, Policemen, Reservation, Reservations

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.

Angeles, Handful, Imagination, Poverty, Real, Stories

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

Crew, Made, Mexican, Nicaragua, Walker

Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want it to be seen by an audience. In theory, especially in the independent world, ironically, you do stand a chance of making a bit of money if the film gets distribution.

Art, Audience, Distribution, Independent, Make, World

It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.

Eccentrics, Nice, Nice Day, Show, Shows

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

Careers, Hollywood, Negative, Pickup, Unfortunately, Universal

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.

Cameras, Critics, Evidence, Genius, Kitchen, Restaurant