Quote

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?

Brit Marling

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
Actor
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Actress
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Brit Heyworth Marling
Something
Else
Doe
Destruct
Human
Experiment
Everything
Experiments
Humans
Environment
Self
Humanity
Whole
Belief
Going
Future

More quotes by Brit Marling

Image
I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
Brit Marling
Image
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.
Brit Marling
Image
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!
Brit Marling
Image
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.
Brit Marling
Image
I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.
Brit Marling
Image
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
Brit Marling
Image
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.
Brit Marling
Image
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.
Brit Marling
Image
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.
Brit Marling
Image
The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.
Brit Marling
Image
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.
Brit Marling
Image
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
Image
Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
Brit Marling
Image
The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
Brit Marling
Image
Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
Brit Marling
Image
If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
Brit Marling
Image
The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.
Brit Marling
Image
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.
Brit Marling
Image
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.
Brit Marling
Image
Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.
Brit Marling