Brit Marling
Brit Marling
Brit Heyworth Marlingis an American actress, screenwriter and film producer. She first gained recognition in 2004 with the documentary Boxers and Ballerinas and later became a Sundance star with the Searchlight movies Sound of My Voice, Another Earthand The Eastwhich she co-wrote in addition to playing the lead role...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth7 August 1983
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.
I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.
I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.
I feel like, when the audience connects with something, they enjoy the experience so much that they want other people to go have it. They're like, "Don't talk about it. Don't tell. Just go!" It's a nice feeling to have people coming around it that way, protecting the ideas in it, so that everyone can see it for themselves.
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.
I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.
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.
When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
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.
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.
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.