Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland says he has fallen out of love with filmmaking (but not film)
Love it or hate it, Alex Garland has had a pretty remarkable run as a director: just four features, Ex Machina, Annihilation, Men, and Civil War, all of them buzzy, thought-provoking, and stylish, and most of them critically acclaimed. With the bombastic and already divisive Civil War, one would think Garland was just getting started as an auteur. Instead, “I’m not planning to direct again in the foreseeable future,” he announces in a new interview with The Guardian.
I have to interact, in a way—without being rude—like this …” he says to Guardian reporter Ellen E. Jones. And the truth is Garland—a writer at heart—just doesn’t like interacting that much. He previously told The New York Times that he doesn’t “particularly enjoy” directing and that he has to “force” himself to do it, because “It’s incredibly sociable, because you are with a large group of people the whole time—and, in my case, having to do a lot of role play.
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