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. – Brit Marling
Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life. – Brit Marling
If you play it safe every time, then you’re missing the best part of acting. You haven’t learned anything about your humanity. – Brit Marling
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. – Brit Marling
I wasn’t actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn’t work very well, in terms of mathematics. – Brit Marling
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. – Brit Marling
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
We’re always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It’s never the truth exactly. – Brit Marling
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I’m afraid of it, then I want to do it. – Brit Marling
I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. – Brit Marling
I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything. – Brit Marling
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! – Brit Marling
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
A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience. – Brit Marling
A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you’re very far way from the person you thought you were. – Brit Marling
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
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. – Brit Marling
We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you’re this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in. – Brit Marling
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. – Brit Marling
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. – Brit Marling
