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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
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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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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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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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I think movies do change people's hearts.
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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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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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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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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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For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
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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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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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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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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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I feel like, when the audience connects with something, they enjoy the experience so much that they want other people to go have it. They're like, Don't talk about it. Don't tell. Just go! It's a nice feeling to have people coming around it that way, protecting the ideas in it, so that everyone can see it for themselves.
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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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 what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
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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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I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
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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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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
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