When I’m sitting writing, I know that something works if I’ve made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion. Brit Marling Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The only thing that’s important is that every day I’m waking and doing something that I really love to do. Brit Marling Read Quote
A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you’re very far way from the person you thought you were. Brit Marling Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’d studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn’t have many examples of artists around me. Brit Marling Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn’t figure out that mathematics of the story first. Brit Marling Read Quote
