Quotes from Alex Garland

If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history, our future, our place in the universe, our lack of place in the universe. That's poetry as far as I'm concerned.

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

The first draft of 'Ex Machina' is extremely different than the finished film. That would be like 10% of the original draft stayed into the shooting script.

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

Sequels are generally done in a rush. They're done with a sense of urgency. The first time, you spend a long time developing to get it over the line. The second time, you don't. Your expectations are different, and your motivations are different.

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.

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

'The Beach' novel, in my mind, was, in some respects, subversive.

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.

If someone says Wes Anderson is an auteur, I'll believe it 100 percent. Fine. He's an auteur, but I'm not.

Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.

I didn't like being a name attached to a book.

Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley