Brit Marling Quotes

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

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.

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

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.

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!

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

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.

I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

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.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

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.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

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.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

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.

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.

I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

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.

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

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.

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.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.