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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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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.
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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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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 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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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'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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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.
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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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Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!
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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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For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
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I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.
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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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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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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
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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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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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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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