I think the first thing I thought when I got out to L.A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.
Brit MarlingSo writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
Brit MarlingI wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
Brit MarlingFor some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
Brit Marling