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So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
Brit Marling
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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.
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I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
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Being a waitress can be a very brutal job sometimes, and I remember during the training, the person said to me, The redder the lips, the better the tips, and that was like the only advice she gave me.
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Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in the kinds of movies where the science fiction world has a set series of rules and you operate in it because of, maybe, constraints in the budget.
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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.
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I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.
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I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.
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I think the first thing I thought when I got out to L.A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.
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People go to the cinema to be moved they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.
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I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
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I feel like, when the audience connects with something, they enjoy the experience so much that they want other people to go have it. They're like, Don't talk about it. Don't tell. Just go! It's a nice feeling to have people coming around it that way, protecting the ideas in it, so that everyone can see it for themselves.
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It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.
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It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.
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Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.
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That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
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The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
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