120 Quotes by Brit Marling

Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

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.

Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I’m more interested in the kinds of movies where the science fiction world has a set series of rules and you operate in it because of, maybe, constraints in the budget.

I’m still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Life is beautiful because it doesn’t last.

I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It’s hard, and it’s exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like – I would do this even if they didn’t pay me to do it. That’s a pretty amazing feeling.

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it’s hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

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.