Brit Marling quotes

Brit Marling is an American writer, actress, and filmmaker known for her work in independent cinema and television. Her storytelling often explores themes of science fiction, identity, and alternate realities. She has co-created and starred in acclaimed projects such as "The OA" and "Another Earth." Here are 41 of her quotes:

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.

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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

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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.

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

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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

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Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!

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Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

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Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

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When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

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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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I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

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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 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.

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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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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.

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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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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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Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

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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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So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

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