The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist,… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving… — 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
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers… — 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
The thing video games had to learn was to write, which is not to let people choose their own stuff, but actually… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
My first attempt at writing was very unstructured and formless, with shifting points of view. I was trying to understand how long… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly… — 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
