Quotes by Alex Garland

Alex Garland

Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world-just no more confusing than any other.

Confusing

Dream

Perspective

Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I’d forgotten England even existed.

Broken

Heart

Travel

Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren’t up to the job.

Dream

Jobs

Memories

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

Believe

Kids

Thinking

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

Scar

Sound

Way

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I’d felt instantly at home.

Democracy

Home

Paper

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.

Atheist

Religious

Writing

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.

Film

People

Thinking

If I’d learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don’t talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.

Bags

Book

Done

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.

Looks

Perspective

Writing

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Able

Atheist

Bags

Beach

Believe

Blue

Book

Broken

Character

Confusing

Cutting

Democracy

Done

Dream

Evil

Expectations

Film

Firsts

Gun

Heart

Holiday

Home

Jobs

Kids

Looks

Love You

Memories

Mistake

Night

Paper

People

Perspective

Poverty

Powerful

Producers

Proud

Real

Religious

Running

Scar

Self

Sound

Sunshine

Tears

Thinking

Tourists

Travel

Traveller

Truth Is

Use

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Quotes by Alex Garland

Alex Garland

Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I’d forgotten England even existed.

Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren’t up to the job.

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

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

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I’d felt instantly at home.

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.

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.

If I’d learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don’t talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.

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.

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