120 Quotes by Brit Marling

I think we’re scared of intimacy – all of us, a little bit.

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.

Is there anything worse than being called the ‘It Girl?’ By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.

When I’m sitting writing, I know that something works if I’ve made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

I think what’s so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven’t been before as a human being.

I think movies do change people’s hearts.

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.

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.