Alex Garland

The first draft of 'Ex Machina' is extremely different than the finished film. That would be like 10% of the original draft…

— Alex Garland

'The Beach' novel, in my mind, was, in some respects, subversive.

— Alex Garland

Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life…

— Alex Garland

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure…

— Alex Garland

“That was longer than a heartbeat.”

— Alex Garland

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

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

“Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying…

— Alex Garland

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…

— Alex Garland

Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta,…

— Alex Garland

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…

— Alex Garland

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

— Alex Garland

I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.

— Alex Garland

“You never listen to me anymore. Before, if I was talking to you, you would always listen. But now you have no…

— Alex Garland

Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley

— Alex Garland

Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and…

— Alex Garland

If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do…

— Alex Garland

I didn't like being a name attached to a book.

— Alex Garland

“An hour later we were walking past rows of busy beach huts and weaving between sunbathers and Frisbee games. I was surprised…

— Alex Garland

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake:…

— Alex Garland

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

Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems…

— Alex Garland

I never feel a huge need for backstory in my novels or films. Quick sketches are often enough. When you encounter people…

— Alex Garland

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

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second.…

— Alex Garland