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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you're capable of it.
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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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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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I think movies do change people's hearts.
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My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.
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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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I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
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So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
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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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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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Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
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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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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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I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.
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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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So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
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I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.
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I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.
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Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.
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