99 Quotes by Alex Garland

You wake, you die.

Jed! I got stuck in some air pocket with more exits than... ” I couldn’t think of anything famous with a large number of exits “I nearly drowned!

I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.

If someone says Wes Anderson is an auteur, I'll believe it 100 percent. Fine. He's an auteur, but I'm not.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write a novel,' and they maybe find the first three pages quite easy, and then they hit a kind of brick wall, and they think that that brick wall means that they're not a writer.