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 Read Quote
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 too much facility on the page. Alex Garland Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I didn’t intend to be a novelist. I didn’t intend to be anything. I thought I’d be a journalist. Alex Garland Read Quote
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 Read Quote
