Latest Zoe Kazan Quotes from Interviews

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• I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to doing my work and having someone comment immediately. So I think that I'm a little hooked on that gratification structure.

  Zoe Kazan

  Thinking, Comment, Gratification

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm definitely feeling whatever's going on pretty hard. It's like playing Barbies. You're holding the Barbies, but all of the action is happening inside of your head. You might be holding them or even speaking out loud, but really, all of the animation is internal. That's sort of how I feel about my writing. And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, "Hmm, there's half a page that's good here." Then you throw out everything else.

  Zoe Kazan

  Writing, Feelings, Barbie

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period. I think that when you're close with a sibling, especially a sister, it's a relationship unlike any other.

  Zoe Kazan

  Sibling, Thinking, Intense

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I grew up in LA, and I don't think I've seen LA onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between. I wanted to see a movie that was set in LA that wasn't about the film industry. LA is such a lonely place to be alone. In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafés, you can talk to people. In LA, no one talks to each other, you're in your house, you're in your car, even when you take walks there's no one on the street.

  Zoe Kazan

  Lonely, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think a large part of an actor's job in preparation is just making the words feel organic to them, and obviously they came out of me, so they felt organic to me already. And then I think then it was all about clearing away all the other voices.

  Zoe Kazan

  Thinking, Preparation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think for acting on stage and in film, one informs the other. Obviously, they require really different kinds of discipline and really different kinds of work. It's more along the same continuum, for me.

  Zoe Kazan

  Thinking, Discipline, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

  Zoe Kazan

  Writing, Thinking, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women. I'd been thinking about what I would want to do with that if I was going to write on that theme, and one morning I woke up and Calvin and Ruby Sparks were in my head.

  Zoe Kazan

  Morning, Writing, Creativity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I do not do my own taxes. It's too many forms. "Here are my 70,000 forms. I have no idea."I would be in jail.

  Zoe Kazan

  Taxes

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I think even probably the people we look up to the most, and think are on the Mount Olympus of actors - they're still experiencing nervousness.

  Zoe Kazan

  Thinking, People, Look Up

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• Most adults get to a point in their careers where they feel secure, where they have a body of work behind them that will ensure longevity, and for actors, it's just not like that. You're basically always a temp, going from job to job.

  Zoe Kazan

  Longevity

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I was 14, when I wanted to be an actor. My parents were basically like, "This is a very hard life, and you have to be really serious about it, and show us that you're serious about it. You can't drop out of school." They strongly encouraged me not to act professionally until I finished college, which I didn't. And I think they should have been horrified! It's a really hard life. I'd be really scared if I had a child who wanted to be an actor.

  Zoe Kazan

  Children, School, College

  Source: www.mtv.com

• When my sister decided that she wanted to act, I was so nervous for her. She's doing great, but I have a lot of friends at every level of success as an actor, and we all go through periods of time where they feel like their worth isn't within their own control. That's a horrible feeling for an adult to have.

  Zoe Kazan

  Feelings, Nervous, My Sister

  Source: www.mtv.com

• If I was born into a household with anxiety about money, I wouldn't have had as much freedom to be in my own world. So it's impossible for me to divorce the privilege of my childhood from the other things.

  Zoe Kazan

  Divorce, Childhood, Anxiety

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I will say they were horrified when I wanted to be an actor. It wasn't a showbiz-y family, and my parents are real introverts who don't go to a lot of Hollywood parties and are most comfortable in their pajamas in our sweet little home. Part of the reason I wanted to be an actor and not just a writer is because I felt much more extroverted than that - I love to be around people, and feed off people's energy, and collaborations. If I hadn't had their example, I wouldn't have been so serious, but I also wouldn't have wanted so much to find another creative outlet.

  Zoe Kazan

  Sweet, Real, Party

  Source: www.mtv.com

• In a way, you normalize your own childhood to yourself, so I never thought about how much I wrote as a kid. So I was there, confronted with it - so many notebooks, so many tiny plays. Every week we put on a play. We had a big futon, so my sister and I would use the futon as our stage, and I wrote little skits and made her faint because I found it so funny.

  Zoe Kazan

  Notebook, Kids, Childhood

  Source: www.mtv.com

• There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but I think it's an enormous privilege to be born into a family where my parents had enough time to read to me and listen to my stories and foster my imagination. It's a privilege to have time to investigate your imagination. And not to have, like, an amount of stress on you as a kid that prevents you from maturing creatively.

  Zoe Kazan

  Stress, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether it's a seed of something personal or an anxiety that turns into a play or an image that's in my mind and haunts me that I'm trying to investigate.

  Zoe Kazan

  Writing, Anxiety, Mind

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I just went through my childhood attic with my sister. I'm not an expert, and I don't mean to put myself in that category, but thinking about Malcolm Gladwell and the 10,000 hours, I was like, Here are my 10,000 hours!

  Zoe Kazan

  Mean, Thinking, Childhood

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Lena Dunham or Miranda July, those people are sort of thinking about their work in a slightly different way than I do, where their whole body is a seed of what they're creating. I can't imagine watching Miranda's movies with anybody else playing her role, she's so integral. But for me, it feels more like every story is really individual. If I thought of something else, or thought it should be my body representing it, I'd fold my body into it. But most of the time I'm writing to get something out of my body.

  Zoe Kazan

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

• A lot of what I've had produced are plays, and I just don't want to do that. It's different than a movie, where you only have to act the scenes the one time, and you have other collaborators helping you make it better, so you don't feel as obsessed with your own mind. Plays you have to do every single night, and the thought of that is agony to me. There are days when you hate your own work, and you don't want to be confronted with that, have it coming out of your mouth or listening to somebody else say it to you. There are days you want to leave the theater and get a drink.

  Zoe Kazan

  Hate, Night, Listening

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.

  Zoe Kazan

  Writing

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I have a lot more writing experience than Paul Dano has, so to be able to put that experience to use in exercising his vision was almost an acting exercise: How would I write if I were Paul? When I look at it, it feels so completely his, but it's also mine.

  Zoe Kazan

  Writing, Exercise, Vision

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Wildlife was the only thing we've written together with Paul Dano. It's based on a book by this author Richard Ford, who just published a memoir about his family that's really wonderful. Paul fell in love with his book, and we optioned it ourselves, and he took a first pass at writing it. He asked me for notes, and then our note session devolved into an argument really quickly.

  Zoe Kazan

  Book, Writing, Together

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I just don't care that much about how famous I am. I care a lot about our world, and whether our planet will survive. It seems really low-stakes how many Twitter followers I have, in the grand scheme of things. In 80 years, who will care?

  Zoe Kazan

  World, Care, I Care

  Source: www.mtv.com