Quotes by Brit Marling

Brit Marling

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

Compromise

Couple

Way

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.

Consumed

Fiction

Stories

Being a waitress can be a very brutal job sometimes, and I remember during the training, the person said to me, “The redder the lips, the better the tips,” and that was like the only advice she gave me.

Advice

Jobs

Training

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.

Believe

Block

Twilight

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

Hovering

Reason

Strange

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.

Believe

Simple

Trying

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.

Lonely

Novelists

Solitude

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.

Life

Philosophy

Political

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

Imagination

Reality

Way

I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I’ve gotten close to articulating something intangible that I’m feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don’t know that I’ve done that yet.

Done

Feelings

Thinking

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California

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Choices You Make

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Consumed

Couple

Definitions

Different

Directors

Done

Dream

Economics

Example

Excuse

Feelings

Fiction

Film

Filmmaker

Funny Things

Girl

Great Love

Groups

Growing Up

Guy

Heart

Hiding

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Hovering

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Quotes by Brit Marling

Brit Marling

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

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.

Being a waitress can be a very brutal job sometimes, and I remember during the training, the person said to me, “The redder the lips, the better the tips,” and that was like the only advice she gave me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I’ve gotten close to articulating something intangible that I’m feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don’t know that I’ve done that yet.

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