I never feel a huge need for backstory in my novels or films. Quick sketches are often enough. When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you… — Alex Garland Copy Share
When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We're… — 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 now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic. — 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 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 some sorts. I've worked on novels, films, and video games, and in an adaptation, I guess one of the issues is that I have to be in love with the thing I'm adapting before I do… — Alex Garland Copy Share
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled. — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
