Brit Marling Quotes

I always try to incorporate something in every book that I've never used before. Hopefully, spontaneity will keep readers reading.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.

My personality is I enjoy constant change and mixing it up.

I always try to do movies that are different from the ones I've done before.

I will always do something new.

I like to try new stuff and experiment. That's why I think it's entertaining to watch my matches, because you never know what I'm going to do, and you see things that you've never seen before.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

I never do the same thing twice.

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.

It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.

If there's any plan or scheme on my part, it's subconscious. Whatever I do tends to be very different from the thing I did last. You're terrified of boring either yourself or anyone else. It's always attractive if it feels like something that you haven't done before. I generally tend to be better, I think, when I'm terrified out of my wits.

For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.