Alex Garland Quotes
When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
-
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
-
Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
-
Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
-
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
-
I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
-
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
-
I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
-
Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
-
I'm not a one-issue person.
-
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
-
I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
-
I take a lot of pictures.
-
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
-
Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
-
Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
-
I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.
-
I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.
-
All this narcissism is rather boring, isn't it?
-
I have always been more of a joyous person than a sad person. But I was fortunate to have a mom and dad where my mom could look at my face and know what was going on and was able to get me to talk and draw it out. As a result, I didn't have to hide an emotion. I didn't have to worry about her telling me, 'That's silly.'
-
The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.
-
Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.
-
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
-
When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.
