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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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Brit Heyworth Marling
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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 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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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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