Brit Marling Quotes

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.

Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in the kinds of movies where the science fiction world has a set series of rules and you operate in it because of, maybe, constraints in the budget.

What I like about acting is that you have to be super, super present in the moment. That's not something that comes to me naturally. But if you take the long view on anything, nothing can really affect you or knock you down. It's like, we're here for a blink, we're just the human experiment, one of many experiments going on in the universe, and it's interesting, it's beautiful by fits and starts, but I can't take it that personally. I'm just one of billions of people attempting.

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.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

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.

The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.

I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.

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.

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.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

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.

I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.

Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

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.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.

Maybe 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.

For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.