As a screenwriter, he is notable for his collaborations with director Martin Scorsese, particularly 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. He did an uncredited rewrite of James Cameron's screenplay for Titanic and was, with Scorsese, the co-screenwriter of Silence. Cocks and Scorsese approached author Philip K. Dick in 1969 for an adaptation of his 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Though the duo never optioned the book, it was later developed into the movie Blade Runner by screenwriter Hampton Fancher and director Ridley Scott.
Cocks and filmmaker Brian De Palma collaborated on a spec script for the crime drama television series Columbo in 1973; their teleplay, titled "Shooting Script" (and written under the pseudonym "Joseph P. Gillis"), was never filmed. De Palma and Cox contributed to the writing of the narrative crawl that opens the 1977 film Star Wars.
Unproduced projects

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