Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

— Alex Garland

Alex Garland Quotes

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

I don’t like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn’t haggle with poverty and getting ripped off.

— Alex Garland

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it’s my head I’m locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

— Alex Garland

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn’t give up. Stubborn, maybe.

— Alex Garland

Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.

— Alex Garland

By the time the plane was airborne I’d forgotten England even existed.

— Alex Garland

Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.

— Alex Garland

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

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

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

— Alex Garland

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

— Alex Garland

The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.

— Alex Garland

You learn about me, and I learn nothing about you. That’s not a foundation on which friendships are based.

— Alex Garland

You wake, you die.

— Alex Garland

Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic.

— Alex Garland

Maybe to have a memory you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.

— Alex Garland

Moshe was a tall Israeli with an ear-splitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness. Hearing the laugh made me blink instinctively, like hearing a hammer pound on brick or metal. Our conversation was impeded by having to watch him through the strobe effect of my convulsing eyes.

— Alex Garland

I remembered a few things about waking. I remembered the sense of surprise as dream life and waking life swapped primacy, and the way in which the most tangible and deeply involving dreams could bleach entirely away.

— Alex Garland

Ava’s living area is made up of three primary spaces.

— Alex Garland

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!

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