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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

Topics: Collaboration Collective Filmmaking Locate Mythology Often Part Person Tend Want

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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

Topics: Anderson Believe Fine He Percent Says Someone

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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.

~Alex Garland

Topics: Connected Feel Grown Guess Had Level Personally Really Some Sort Success Thing Truth Truth Is Up Wanting Ways Weird Whole Writer

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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

Topics: About Amount Bar Based Chance Decisions Encounter Good Happen Incredibly Information Intricate Life Like Make People Quick Quite Small Very Wherever You

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I didn't like being a name attached to a book.

~Alex Garland

Topics: Attached Being Book Like Name

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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

Topics: Coming Discovered Facility Got Massive Much Novels Over Page Problem Screenplays Too Too Much Which Writing Years You

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Sequels are generally done in a rush. They're done with a sense of urgency. The first time, you spend a long time developing to get it over the line. The second time, you don't. Your expectations are different, and your motivations are different.

~Alex Garland

Topics: Developing Different Done Expectations First First Time Generally Get Line Long Long Time Motivations Over Rush Second Sense Sequels Spend Time Urgency You Your

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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

Topics: About Aggression Beach Because Being Days Felt Honest Kind Later More Reaction Should Some Than Very Ways

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'The Beach' novel, in my mind, was, in some respects, subversive.

~Alex Garland

Topics: Beach Mind Novel Respects Some Subversive

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I didn't go to film school.

~Alex Garland

Topics: Film Film School Go School

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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