Quote

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

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
Fiction
Present
Simple
Science
Illuminate
Trying
Somewhat
Something
Invisible
Believe
Rules
Follow

More quotes by 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
Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
Brit Marling
Image
One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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
Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.
Brit Marling
Image
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
Image
I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.
Brit Marling
Image
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.
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
People go to the cinema to be moved they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.
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
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
Image
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.
Brit Marling
Image
Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
Brit Marling
Image
I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.
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
I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
Brit Marling
Image
I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.
Brit Marling
Image
Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
Brit Marling
Image
For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
Brit Marling