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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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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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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 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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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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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
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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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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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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.
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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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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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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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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 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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