The way that a handful of corporations in Los Ange... -Alex Cox

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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Alex Cox is a British film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is known for directing cult films such as "Repo Man" and "Sid and Nancy." Cox's works often explore themes of rebellion, counterculture, and social commentary. He has been recognized for his unique visual style and unconventional storytelling techniques. Cox's films have developed a dedicated following and have influenced subsequent generations of filmmakers.

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The future is always a dystopia in movies....
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....
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square....
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 h...
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 ref...
The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king....
You can't change the system through violence....
It's always nice when the eccentrics show up....
That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them....
I did not find my studies particularly enthralling....

Imagination Quotes to Explore

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimula...
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of reader...
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions....
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim....
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to f...
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get m...
I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite ...
I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but ...
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work....
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 y...