Life & Mortality Quote by Alex Cox

The line lands like an offhand correction, but it’s doing real work: Alex Cox is quietly reclaiming authorship in a culture that loves to flatten filmmakers into a greatest-hits thumbnail. Starting with “No” makes it feel like a rebuttal to an implied, probably familiar prompt - the kind of interview question that reduces his career to Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, or some other canonical touchstone. Cox doesn’t argue; he simply adds a title. That’s the flex. It’s the director as catalog, insisting on the long tail.

“as well” is the key phrase. It signals exhaustion with being remembered narrowly, and it frames the filmography as a continuum rather than a couple of lucky strikes. The specificity of “Death and the Compass” (a Borges adaptation, and not exactly mass-market) sharpens the subtext: Cox isn’t just saying he worked; he’s saying he made something stranger, more literary, more formally minded than the version of him people keep in their heads. It’s a reminder that “cult director” can become a polite cage.

The intent reads less like bragging than like record-setting. Cox’s persona has always carried an anti-establishment charge; here it shows up as a refusal to let the industry’s memory machine decide what counts. The casual tone is strategic: no manifesto, no wounded speech, just a crisp insertion into the narrative. One sentence, and the interview’s power dynamic shifts slightly back toward the artist.