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" I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist. "
Alex Garland
Thought
Anything
Intend
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" 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 good at that. "
Alex Garland
People
Decisions
Good
" I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions. "
Alex Garland
Questions
Mean
Think
" What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history, our future, our place in the universe, our lack of place in the universe. That's poetry as far as I'm concerned. "
Alex Garland
History
Imagination
Science
" It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact. "
Alex Garland
Like
Seems
Say
" I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time. "
Alex Garland
Always
Back
Last
" 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
Percent
Fine
Someone
" My approach to directing is to not do very much directing. I'm mainly interested in what the creative group individually and together are thinking. "
Alex Garland
Thinking
Together
Creative
" Really original material is quite hard to find. "
Alex Garland
Hard
Material
Original
" 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 I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess. "
Alex Garland
Truth
Success
Feel
" If I was being very honest about it, probably more honest than I should be, '28 Days Later' was a reaction to 'The Beach' in some ways because I felt it lacked a kind of aggression in it. "
Alex Garland
Aggression
Honest
More
" The first draft of 'Ex Machina' is extremely different than the finished film. That would be like 10% of the original draft stayed into the shooting script. "
Alex Garland
Shooting
Draft
Film
" I didn't go to film school. "
Alex Garland
Film
Film School
School
" It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there. "
Alex Garland
Look
You
Perspective
" Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's not one person. It's a collective, and it is a collaboration. "
Alex Garland
Person
Collaboration
Want
" 'The Beach' novel, in my mind, was, in some respects, subversive. "
Alex Garland
Some
Novel
Mind
" I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way. "
Alex Garland
Way
Same
See
" I know some directors get very involved in trailers and posters. Some even cut their own. I stay completely away from it. I just see my job as making a film. "
Alex Garland
Job
Own
See
" 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
Marketing
Important
Now
" I didn't like being a name attached to a book. "
Alex Garland
Name
Like
Book
" 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
Original
Someone
Up
" I'm just interested in science, and I try to keep track of what's going on and get my head around it - inflation, the multiverse, whatever. It's very hard for me because I don't have a scientific background, and I wasn't any good at science at school, but all of that stuff I just find incredibly attractive and fascinating. "
Alex Garland
School
Find
Good
" When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room. "
Alex Garland
I Can
Writing
Without
" Sequels are generally done in a rush. They're done with a sense of urgency. The first time, you spend a long time developing to get it over the line. The second time, you don't. Your expectations are different, and your motivations are different. "
Alex Garland
Time
You
Long
" When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself. "
Alex Garland
Sad
Me
Myself