Zoe Kazan Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

  Zoe Kazan

  Real, Writing, People

  "‘Ruby Sparks’ Writer/Star Zoe Kazan On the Personal Nature of Her Screenwriting Debut and Letting the Muse Speak to Her". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. July 25, 2012.

• 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 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

• 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

• Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

  Zoe Kazan

  Writing, Down And, Force

  "The Hot Seat: Ruby Sparks' Zoe Kazan". Interview with Amy Plitt, www.timeout.com. July 15 2012.

• 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

• I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

  Zoe Kazan

  Jobs, Writing, School

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.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

• When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

  Zoe Kazan

  Moving, Writing, Laughing

  "The Exploding Girl Blows Up". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

• 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 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 think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of it as an "artistic bug" because I didn't necessarily want to be an artist. It's just who I was and how I communicate.

  Zoe Kazan

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.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

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