Alex Garland Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
May 26, 1970

Alexander Medawar Garland (born 26 May 1970) is an English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. He rose to prominence as a novelist in the late 1990s with his novel The Beach, which led some critics to call Garland a key voice of Generation X. He subsequently received praise for the screenplays of the films 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012).

Also known as Screenwriter, Film Producer, Director

It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

Alex Garland
- Perspective
- Planning
When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We're good at that.

Alex Garland
- People
- Life
- Good

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
- Up
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
- Good
- School
- Science
If I was being very honest about it, probably more honest than I should be, '28 Days Later' was a reaction to 'The Beach' in some ways because I felt it lacked a kind of aggression in it.

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

Alex Garland