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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.
Brit Marling
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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
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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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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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People go to the cinema to be moved they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.
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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
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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 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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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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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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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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That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
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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'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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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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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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For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
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