Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
Brit MarlingI 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 MarlingIt 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.
Brit MarlingMaybe 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.
Brit MarlingIf you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?
Brit Marling