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That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
Brit Marling
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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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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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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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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'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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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 one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.
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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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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 what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
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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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For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.
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Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in the kinds of movies where the science fiction world has a set series of rules and you operate in it because of, maybe, constraints in the budget.
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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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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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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!
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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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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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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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