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. Alex Garland Read Quote
The scripts of ‘The Wire’ are fantastic – the scripts of ‘Breaking Bad,’ the scripts of ‘Mad Men,’ the scripts of ‘The Sopranos,’ the scripts of ‘Battlestar Galactica.’ You could keep going on. They’re incredibly well written. Alex Garland Read Quote
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. Alex Garland Read Quote
Look, when AIs come up, they’re not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human. Alex Garland Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact. Alex Garland Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
