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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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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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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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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'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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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'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
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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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There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.
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I think movies do change people's hearts.
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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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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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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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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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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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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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