120 Quotes by Brit Marling

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

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

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!

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.

When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

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.

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