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
So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
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.
If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?
Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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 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.
When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.