The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing.

- Alex Cox

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

- Alex Cox

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

- 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 re…

- 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 …

- Alex Cox

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

- Alex Cox

It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.

- Alex Cox

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

- Alex Cox

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

- Alex Cox