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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!
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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I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.
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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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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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I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.
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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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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
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I think movies do change people's hearts.
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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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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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I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
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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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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 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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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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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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I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.
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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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For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
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