You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.

Alex Garland

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

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

some novel mind beach

I didn't go to film school. by Alex Garland

I didn't go to film school.

go film-school 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.

own job see know

Really original material is quite hard to find. by Alex Garland

Really original material is quite hard to find.

really quite find hard

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.

first like shooting different

My approach to directing is to not do very much directing. I'm mainly interested in what the creative group individually and together are thinking.

group creative together thinking