Editing Alex Cox (section)

==Influences and style==
Cox has cited [[Luis Buñuel]] and [[Akira Kurosawa]] as influences,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.alexcox.com/dir_lastemperor.htm |title=Alex Cox – Kurosawa: The Last Emperor<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=6 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113154911/http://www.alexcox.com/dir_lastemperor.htm |archive-date=13 November 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> as well as the [[Western (genre)|Western]] film directors [[Sergio Leone]], [[Sergio Corbucci]], [[Sam Peckinpah]], [[John Ford]] and [[Giulio Questi]]. Cox also wrote a book on the history of the genre called ''10,000 Ways to Die''. While he once directed films for [[Universal Pictures]], such as ''[[Repo Man (film)|Repo Man]]'' and ''[[Walker (film)|Walker]]'', since the late 1980s, he has found himself on a self-described [[blacklist]], and turned to producing [[independent films]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Murray |first=Noel |url=https://www.avclub.com/alex-cox-1798213500 |title=Alex Cox · Interview · The A.V. Club |publisher=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=13 March 2008 |access-date=20 May 2014}}</ref> Cox is an [[atheism|atheist]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Thompson|first=Stephen|title=Is there a God?|newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=6 September 2000|url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/is-there-a-god,1394/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219071902/http://www.avclub.com/articles/is-there-a-god,1394/|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 February 2009|access-date=4 September 2009}}</ref> and is decidedly left-wing in his political views. Many of his films have an explicit [[anti-capitalism|anti-capitalist]] theme or message. He was originally set to direct ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film)|Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]'' but was replaced by [[Terry Gilliam]] due to creative differences with [[Hunter S. Thompson]].<ref>{{cite web|author=J.D. Lafrance |url=http://rheaven.blogspot.com/2008/11/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas.html |title=Radiator Heaven: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |publisher=Rheaven.blogspot.com |date=10 November 2008 |access-date=20 May 2014}}</ref> By August 2009, Cox had announced completion of ''[[Repo Chick]]'', which premiered at the [[Venice Film Festival]] the following month, but he remained ambivalent as to whether the film would ever be distributed to cinemas.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-04/film/interview-director-alex-cox-on-his-long-awaited-non-sequel-repo-chick/ |title=Director Alex Cox on His Long-Awaited Non-Sequel Repo Chick |website=villagevoice.com |publisher=[[The Village Voice]] |access-date=2 August 2016 |archive-date=25 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225172530/http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-04/film/interview-director-alex-cox-on-his-long-awaited-non-sequel-repo-chick/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> His previous film, ''Searchers 2.0'', was not released theatrically, and only appears on DVD in Japan and North America after a televised screening in the UK on the BBC.

Cox is a fan of the Japanese ''[[Godzilla]]'' films and appeared in a 1998 BBC documentary highlighting the series. He also narrated the documentary ''Bringing Godzilla Down to Size'' and wrote the ''Godzilla in Time'' comics for [[Dark Horse Comics|Dark Horse]]. He tried to direct an American ''Godzilla'' film at one point, but unsuccessfully submitted his outline to [[TriStar Pictures]].