Alex Garland Quotes

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.

Alex Garland

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TogetherCreativeThinkingGroup

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

Joan Didion

PeopleMindDoorNightThinkBad

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

John Millington Synge

SeaMyselfMomentMenMeMoving

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

John Legend

PeopleArtistNowMy OwnSeeOut

Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

Matt Haig

MindThoughtsYouUnderstandReason

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

Steve Burns

MeCrazySoundNoiseLikePlease

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Tre Cool

YouSmokeGot

There's a restaurant in Manhattan called Balthazar, and next to it is Balthazar Bakery. It's tiny, and it's very charming to have that little retail outlet to sell the house desserts and breads.

Tom Douglas

RestaurantHouseCharmingRetail

The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-water mark of bro culture, nothing can ever top the MTV series 'Bromance,' with Brody Jenner and his search for a new BFF.

Rob Sheffield

LoveTimeCultureSpeakNameSearch

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Miguel de Unamuno

ScienceIdeasDeadCemetery

I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you.

Michael Moore

SupportAmericaYouTroopsNeither

I don't get all that tan outdoors because I am so fair, and my color goes away so fast. It really is a waste for me to try and get suntan because it's more work than it's worth.

Josie Bissett

WorkI AmMeOutdoorsColorWorth

The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.

Douglas Tompkins

WorkWorldEatingYearManufacturing

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