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Tacitus' Alex Cox Quote-athon...
"LA encourages prats - I mean, creative genii - like (Robert) Rodriguez: especially if they are willing to shoot with the latest digital camera, and put a few lab technicians out of work as well."
"Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner."
"My friend Rudy Wurlitzer once flew to Japan with director Sam Peckinpah to promote "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid". They were in what they thought was the first class cabin, but in mid-flight, Peckinpah, completely drunk, discovered a flight of stairs.
He went up, and came storming back down. "Rudy!" he yelled. "They got a whole 'nother first class up there! With BEDS!" Peckinpah rose to new heights of unstoppable, superhuman, wounded-American fury. "I have a first class ticket! And I demand a first class bed!" The embarrassed flight attendants quickly roused one of the sleeping Japanese passengers so that Sam could be installed in a full-length, super first class bed, for the remaining four or five hours.
Rudy, of course, remained downstairs.
Moral of the story: If you are a worker in the film industry, you will have the experience of being treated like kitchen help."
On LA - "It isn't just a bit ugly. It is massively ugly: an endless grey grid of one-, or two-storey buildings and logjammed cars. I was a graduate student here from 1977 to 1980, and a screenwriter and a director here from '80 to '84. I got out for ten years, but came back to direct another film in 1995, got fired off "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" here in 1997, and taught graduate students at UCLA in 1998. I have more friends in Los Angeles than anywhere, but I would be happy never to return."
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