The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with. Brit Marling More Quotes by Brit Marling More Quotes From Brit Marling When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there. Brit Marling groups reading people 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. Brit Marling age writing trying So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over. They have so much power and influence, so it's really important that they represent women properly. Brit Marling hollywood important stories I 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 Marling phones mind brain If 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 hiding immune-system periods We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly. Brit Marling never just always truth You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina. Brit Marling some know you writing