alex garland on directing ex machina and annihilation: it was a relief to stop writing novels /

Back in the 90s,Alex Garland was in his mid-20s and collecting unemployment when he penned the massive bestseller The Beach, which then became an even bigger Leonardo DiCaprio film. Shocked by his success–as he says, and "suddenly you're pretending to be a novelist"–Garland then went on to write other books (most notably The Tesseract,which was also adapted for the screen). But still, Garland thought, and "this isn't what I intended with my life." In fact he says,"it was…

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