120 Quotes by Brit Marling

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.

I’d studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn’t have many examples of artists around me.

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.

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.

The only thing that’s important is that every day I’m waking and doing something that I really love to do.

I think we’re always looking for an excuse to connect.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they’re not feeling deeply in their own lives.

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.

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.