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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
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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'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
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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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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 think movies do change people's hearts.
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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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It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.
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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 think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
Brit Marling
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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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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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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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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