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Alex Cox

"Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film."

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Donna Grant

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Donna Grant

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."

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Donna Grant

"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."

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Donna Grant

"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."

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Donna Grant

"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."

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Donna Grant

"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."

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Donna Grant

"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."

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Donna Grant

"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."

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Donna Grant

"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."

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Alex Cox
"I'd love to make another film in Mexico."

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Alex Cox
"That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them."

Politics

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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."

Imagination

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

Crime

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Alex Cox
"Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked."

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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 hat."

Profession

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Alex Cox
"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."

Time

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Alex Cox
"No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well."

Film

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Alex Cox
"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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Alex Cox
"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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