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I don't think about Hollywood at all.
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Hollywood
Thinking
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I'd love to make another film in Mexico.
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Mexico
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The life of a repo man is always intense.
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Intense
Life Man Always
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The future is always a dystopia in movies.
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Dystopia
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It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.
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Eccentric
Nice
Nice Day
Shows
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You can't change the system through violence.
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Can't Change
Violence
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I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.
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Particularly
Studies
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No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.
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Compass
Film
Wells
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The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
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Kings
Crime
Murder
Play
Shakespeare
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We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.
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Tragedy
Based
Spanish
Thomas
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You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.
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Indian
Motorcycle
Policemen
Reservations
Policeman
Reservation
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Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.
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Film
Japan
Mexico
Yeah
Be Happy
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My film is intentionally political. And I think that's really the issue.
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Film
Political
Thinking
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And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.
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Crew
Made
Mexican
Nicaragua
Although
Shot
Walker
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I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
Alex Cox / Film Director
Actors
Directors
Good Actors
Good Actor
They Say
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That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.
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Curse
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Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
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Careers
Hollywood
Negative
Began
Unfortunately
Pickup
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Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.
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Representation
Visual
Essential
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So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.
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Worst
Getting Better
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Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
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New Ways
Pleasure
Projects
Sorry
Stuff
Way
Finding
Same Stuff
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One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
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Harder
Law
Prime
Prime Minister
Study
Chap
Contemporaries
Minister
Studies
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The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing.
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I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.
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Punk
Revolutionary
Surrealism
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Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
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Dose
English Language
Language
Littles
Playwright
Squares
Fairly
Shakespeare
Square
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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.
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Imagination
Corporations
Handful
Los Angeles
Poverty
Real
Stories
Angeles
Big Problem
Creates
Dictate
Los
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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.
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Annoyed
Cowboy
Cowboy Hat
Hate
Justin
One Day
Salinger
Everyone Else
Hat
Pink
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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.
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Abroad
Allowed
People See Something
Wars
Provoke
Result
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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.
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Time Goes By
Mental
Protagonist
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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.
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Conservative
English Language
Language
Writing
Reflected
Shakespeare
Writings
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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.
Alex Cox / Film Director
Cameras
Critics
Evidence
Genius
Kitchen
Scene
Scorsese
Steps
Walks
Camera
Restaurant
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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.
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Art
Independent
World
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