Brit Marling Quotes
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
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I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.
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Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.
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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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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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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
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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 feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.
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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.
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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.
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I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.
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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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A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
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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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We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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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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You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.