Brie Larson on the importance of stories

One of the better moments in last night’s Golden Globe Awards was when Brie Larson won Best Actress for her role in the movie Room. I’ve been a fan since her work in Short Term 12 and in reading up on Larson, it’s clear she has a real affection for movies. That was underscored by comments she made to reporters last night. I was so taken by them, I transcribed her words.

“The idea of someone sitting in a theater is very sacred to me. When I was growing up, that’s how I learned about the world. That’s how I learned about different cultures, different generations, different ways of being a woman. I believed every frame of every movie I saw, and as I got older, I realized that with moviemaking, we can trick people into believing anything we want. So I feel a great sense of responsibility with film to tell things as honestly as I can and to be as vulnerable as possible because vulnerability is the strongest thing you can do. I hope that in the films I make, you can be in a theater with twenty people, you’re ultimately alone when you watch it, and you can find new ways to relate to people that you thought you’d never have anything in common with. All these movies I’m doing are actually very old stories. They’re much older than I even have a time frame for. And they’re the stories of our lives, the way that we can process and make sense of this world, and feel like we’re connected to it.”

Those last few lines? As writers, we need to remember that every time we sit down to work. They’re the stories of our lives, the way that we can process and make sense of this world, and feel like we’re connected to it.

I hope Brie Larson and James Ponsoldt make a bunch of movies together. Those would be stories worth telling.

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