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 working with someone else's characters and stories. — 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 prescribe it. To say, "This character is not a blank canvas that you can project onto. I'm going… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 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 differences of… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled. — Alex Garland Copy Share Image