Alex Garland Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
-
I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
-
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
-
I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
-
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
-
Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
-
The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
-
You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
-
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
-
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
-
Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
-
Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
-
My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
-
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
-
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
-
If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
-
There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
-
Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
-
I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've ever done.
-
I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn't feel right; if it's not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn't right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn't work.
-
The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.
-
When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.
-
My favourite animal would probably be - probably be a dingo. Because I like how in the night you can - at the zoo, you can hear them howl and stuff like that. It's just amazing.
-
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.
