Latest Brit Marling Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, Internet

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Early rejections are really tough, especially when all of your friends who you went to school with now have legitimate jobs, are getting married, having children, buying real estate, being adults. And you're still trying to figure out how to make a living doing the thing you think you love, but you're not even sure yet because you haven't even done it. It was a long road of risk and treachery.

  Brit Marling

  Children, Real, School

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Eventually, if you're the train that's leaving the station, people will race to catch up with you. I think that's one of the things I've figured out. You can't wait for permission to act, you just do; then people are like, "Oh, look at that person just doing over there. Maybe I'll come join them."

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I 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 Marling

  Girl, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

• The problem is if you play enough of parts in films that are sort of more financial products than anything or films in which the girl is a thankless, thoughtless, underwritten character along the way, you're no longer the person who had something fresh or vital to offer. I think it really does start to diminish some part of you, to put yourself through things you don't really want to be doing.

  Brit Marling

  Girl, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

  Brit Marling

  Life And Death, Birth, Mystery

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

• I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

  Brit Marling

  Believe, Simple, Trying

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

• I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

  Brit Marling

  Reality, Imagination, Way

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

• 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.

  Brit Marling

  Block, Twilight, Believe

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

• For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

  Brit Marling

  Hovering, Strange, Reason

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

• 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.

  Brit Marling

  Beautiful, Views, Long

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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

  Brit Marling

  Emotional, Impact, More Time

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

• 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

  Lonely, Solitude, Novelists

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Important, Hollywood, Stories

  Source: collider.com

• I'd love to do anything that is outside of my comfort zone, that I've never done before. Whenever I think about something that I want to take on, I like it if it makes me a bit nervous, or makes me feel like I don't know exactly that I can pull it off.

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Comfort, Done

  Source: collider.com

• I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

  Brit Marling

  Different, Done, Want

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Reading, People, Groups

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Writing, Age, Trying

  Source: collider.com

• One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences that you never could have even conceived of, and that's because you're living in another writer's imagination and another director's imagination.

  Brit Marling

  Live Life, Imagination, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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

  Brit Marling

  Stories, Actors, Surrender

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Brit Marling

  Fall, Character, Moments

  Source: collider.com

• There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

  Brit Marling

  Actors, World, Filmmaker

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Brit Marling

  Numbers, People, Brain

  Source: collider.com

• One of my favorite stories growing up was A Wrinkle in Time. I loved that book. I still remember the image, so strongly, of all the kids coming out of their house at the same time, they're all bouncing a ball at the same time, and they all go back in at the same time. A Wrinkle in Time moved me deeply.

  Brit Marling

  Growing Up, Book, Kids

  Source: collider.com

• Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.

  Brit Marling

  Fiction, Stories, Consumed

  Source: collider.com