Quotes from Brit Marling

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!

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

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

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.

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.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

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

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

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.

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.

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

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

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!

As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

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

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

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