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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

Topics: Away Cut Directors Even Film Get Involved Job Just Know Making Own Posters See Some Stay Trailers Very

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Really original material is quite hard to find.

~Alex Garland

Topics: Find Hard Material Original Quite Really

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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

Topics: Different Draft Extremely Film Finished First Like Original Script Shooting Stayed Than Would

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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

Topics: Approach Creative Directing Group Individually Interested Mainly Much Thinking Together Very

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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

Topics: Any Around Attractive Background Because Fascinating Find Get Going Good Hard Head Incredibly Inflation Interested Just Keep Me School Science Scientific Stuff Track Try Very Whatever

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It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact.

~Alex Garland

Topics: Dangerous Fact Like Me Perfectly Potentially Reasonable Say Seems Statement

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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

Topics: Ai Come Going Human Like Look Sentient Up Us

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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

Topics: Ambition Brick Day Easy Find First Going Harbor Hit Kind Lot Maybe Means Novel One Day Pages People Quite Say Some Then They Say Think Three Wall Write Writer I Think

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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

Topics: Bad Battlestar Galactica Breaking Breaking Bad Could Fantastic Going Incredibly Keep Keep Going Mad Mad Men Men Scripts Sopranos The Sopranos Well Wire Written You

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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

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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