Quotes by Brian Cox

I was living in London and I thought, 'there's nothing here for me anymore'. I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.

I was very inspired by people like Tim Roth and Gary Oldman. I just thought, if they could do it, I could do it.

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

It's always different working with a different director because he brings his own thing to it. He brings his own discipline.

People say, 'you've done a lot of films.' But I had a lot of time to catch up with. For many years I didn't do films. I did a couple of films. I did a lot of television. I did one motion picture in 1971. Then I did one in 1975. Then I didn't do another film until 1986 which was MANHUNTER.

Feudal societies don't create great cinema we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.

Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio.