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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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Brit Heyworth Marling
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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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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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But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?
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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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For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
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The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.
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Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.
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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 think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.
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If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
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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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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've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.
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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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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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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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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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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
Brit Marling
Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!
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