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Alex Garland

British Novelist

Born: 1970

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

Thought Journalist Intend Anything Novelist

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

AI Come Like Look Up Going Human Sentient Us

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way. Alex Garland

Writing Seen Think Way See Same Screenwriting Certainly

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. Alex Garland

Future History Science Imagination Universe Our See Poetry Concerned Referring Lot Cells Lack As Far As Place Far Fundamental Things

Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's not one person. It's a collective, and it is a collaboration. Alex Garland

Collective Collaboration Locate Tend Mythology Part Person Often Want Filmmaking

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

Life Good You People Incredibly Intricate About Small Small Amounts Like Make Encounter Quick Very Quite Happen Wherever Information Bar Decisions Based Amount Chance

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. Alex Garland

You Writing Problem Too Much Too Facility Over Massive Got Coming Years Discovered Screenplays Which Much Page Novels

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

Mind Respects Some Beach Subversive Novel

I didn't go to film school. Alex Garland

School Go Film Film School

I know some directors get very involved in trailers and posters. Some even cut their own. I stay completely away from it. I just see my job as making a film. Alex Garland

Job Own Stay See Posters Some Directors Know Involved Making Trailers Very Get Just Cut Even Film Away

Really original material is quite hard to find. Alex Garland

Find Material Quite Really Hard Original

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

Me Dangerous Statement Say Seems Potentially Fact Perfectly Like Reasonable

I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing. Alex Garland

Funny Writing Same Thing Think Funny Way Way Directing Write Between Also Sort Same Really Differentiate Thing Set

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