He is a glorified gutter rat from a dying New Jersey town who walks with an easy swagger that is part residual stage presence, part boardwalk braggadocio.
"Jay Cocks" is an American film critic and motion picture screenwriter.
He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time magazine/Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before shifting to screenplay writing.
As a screenwriter, he worked on Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993 film)/The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York — a screenplay he started working on in 1976 — as well as Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days (film)/Strange Days. Cocks performed an uncredited rewrite of James Cameron/James Cameron's screenplay for Titanic (1997 film)/Titanic. He is the screenwriter for Martin Scorsese's upcoming film Silence (2015 film)/Silence.
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