That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual. Brit Marling More Quotes by Brit Marling More Quotes From Brit Marling 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. Brit Marling parentwantideas I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. Brit Marling sometimesmeanthinking I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one. Brit Marling actinglifetimethinking 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. Brit Marling guywritingtalking The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do. Brit Marling wakingimportant 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. Brit Marling movielawthinking As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it. Brit Marling actorsideasfirsts So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women. Brit Marling strongerwritingmeaningful I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means. It can take on any form. That's what's so exciting about the time we're in; these filmmakers are coming in and letting the story tell itself as it wants to be told. Brit Marling internetmeanthinking One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart. Brit Marling viewsheartcharacter A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience. Brit Marling arrivingfilmfeelings 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. Brit Marling wayfictionworld I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that. Brit Marling novelistssolitudelonely I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me. Brit Marling growing-upartistexample Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life. Brit Marling wakingwake-upscary Life is beautiful because it doesn't last. Brit Marling life-is-beautifullastsbeautiful For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro. Brit Marling hoveringstrangereason When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film. Brit Marling citizensclasskids Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me. Brit Marling cubamadehappens 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. Brit Marling photographycollegeart
