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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.
Brit Marling
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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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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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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 I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.
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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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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 believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.
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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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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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I think movies do change people's hearts.
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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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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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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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