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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.
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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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
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I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means. It can take on any form. That's what's so exciting about the time we're in these filmmakers are coming in and letting the story tell itself as it wants to be told.
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When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
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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.
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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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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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