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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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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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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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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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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On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.
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I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.
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Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.
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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.
