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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

Topics: Atlantic Aware Been Certainly Comic Comic-Con Directly Even Film Films Important Important Part Linked Marketing Never Now Part Side Very

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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

Topics: Before Characters Come Definitely Different Else Idea Material Myself Original Someone Stories Up Very Where Working Written

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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

Topics: Being Depends Down Film How Just Look Make Only Perspective Planning Script See Sit Slightly Sort Step Things Write You Your

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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

Topics: Atheist Because Everything Interested Just Mean Partly Perspective Questions Really Think Write I Think I Write

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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

Topics: Able About Another Been Complicated Film Kind Me Myself Never Part Proud Really Resolve Sad See Sunshine Very I See

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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

Topics: Anything Intend Journalist Novelist Thought

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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

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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

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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

Topics: As Far As Cells Concerned Far Fundamental Future History Imagination Lack Lot Our Place Poetry Referring Science See Things Universe I See

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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

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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