“You never listen to me anymore. Before, if I was talking to you, you would always listen. But now you have no time to even talk to me. 'Yeah... Has Keaty told you not to eat the Stew?' 'Richard!' I frowned 'What?' 'You are not listening to me!' '… Oh. Well I'm sorry. I've got a lot on my mind.'… — Alex Garland Copy Share
Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if… — Alex Garland Copy Share
“Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is the generation that travels the globe and… — 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
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
