Brit Marling Quotes
Top 38 wise famous quotes and sayings by Brit Marling
Brit Marling Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Brit Marling on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.
So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.
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.
A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.
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.
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.
Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.
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 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.
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.
A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.
The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.
If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
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.
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.
The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.