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.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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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.
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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.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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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.
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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.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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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.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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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.
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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.
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There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.
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Language changes very fast.
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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.
