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
I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you… — 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 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
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
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
I used to think about video games, "This is clearly an amazing, new narrative medium, and it's going to be mind-blowing when… — 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
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
