A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
Brit MarlingI 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.
Brit MarlingThe more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.
Brit MarlingI used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds.
Brit MarlingWe 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. I think we accept a lot of those boxes, that labeling, and the way that we perceive the world, but what even is perception? It all seems pretty flexible to me.
Brit Marling