There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second.… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Uh... what can I say? Made money. Given a launch pad for a working life. Set a precedent I had no interest… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I never feel a huge need for backstory in my novels or films. Quick sketches are often enough. When you encounter people… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
The first draft of 'Ex Machina' is extremely different than the finished film. That would be like 10% of the original draft stayed into… — Alex Garland Copy Share
Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured… — Alex Garland Copy Share
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being… — Alex Garland Copy Share
The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and… — Alex Garland Copy Share
If someone says Wes Anderson is an auteur, I'll believe it 100 percent. Fine. He's an auteur, but I'm not. — Alex Garland Copy Share
“Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around… — Alex Garland Copy Share
I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing… — Alex Garland Copy Share
Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass… — Alex Garland Copy Share
Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some differences of… — Alex Garland Copy Share
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled. — Alex Garland Copy Share
I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars. — Alex Garland Copy Share
“You never listen to me anymore. Before, if I was talking to you, you would always listen. But now you have no time to… — Alex Garland Copy Share
Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley — Alex Garland Copy Share
