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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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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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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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
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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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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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That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
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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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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.
Brit Marling
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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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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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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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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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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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.
Brit Marling
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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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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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 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 what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
Brit Marling
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.
Brit Marling
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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