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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.

Brit Marling

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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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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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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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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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Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
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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 movies do change people's hearts.
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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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That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
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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 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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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 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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