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• I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

  Alex Garland

  Character, Ideas, Different

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to think about video games, "This is clearly an amazing, new narrative medium, and it's going to be mind-blowing when people get to grips with what's possible within this medium." It took us a century to get really good at film. Video games are at a much earlier stage.

  Alex Garland

  Thinking, People, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing video games had to learn was to write, which is not to let people choose their own stuff, but actually prescribe it. To say, "This character is not a blank canvas that you can project onto. I'm going to tell you what this character is like. And I'm going to tell you what happens to them. You're going to feel involved in other ways." Video games made the mistake of thinking everything had to be projectable, and this doesn't do that at all.

  Alex Garland

  Mistake, Writing, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My first attempt at writing was very unstructured and formless, with shifting points of view. I was trying to understand how long form might work, and I realized I had something shapeless. It was a total car wreck. But I still felt I could pull it off. So I ditched that attempt and started writing in the opposite manner, in first person, with a driving narrative.

  Alex Garland

  Writing, Long, Car

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.

  Alex Garland

  Sound, Way, Scar

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• I never feel a huge need for backstory in my novels or films. Quick sketches are often enough. 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. Long descriptions prior to meeting someone or as you're getting to know them almost don't work.

  Alex Garland

  Long, People, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.

  Alex Garland

  Beach, Firsts, Bangkok

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• There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much facility on the page. In novels, you can persuade people of things that work that don't really work.

  Alex Garland

  Writing, People, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work on it intensely in a private way without the big machinery of film.

  Alex Garland

  People, Film, Producers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Writing, Perspective, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.

  Alex Garland

  Religious, Atheist, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.

  Alex Garland

  Stars, Ceilings, Strange

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.62, Penguin

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• I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

  Alex Garland

  Beach, Giving Up, Stubborn

  Interview with Dennis Widmyer, chuckpalahniuk.net. July 30, 2007.

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• The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.

  Alex Garland

  Truth Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".

  Alex Garland

  Believe, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

  Alex Garland

  Mistake, Writing, Holiday

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• I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic.

  Alex Garland

  Marketing, Important, Sides

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Alex Garland

  Sunshine, Proud, Able

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking — partly for the experience — it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.

  Alex Garland

  Book, Divorce, Past

  "Beach nut". Interview with Sue Wheat, www.salon.com. February 11, 2000.

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• Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.

  Alex Garland

  Book, Love You, Night

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.8, Penguin

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• I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

  Alex Garland

  Country, Travel, Confused

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