Zoe Kazan Quotes - Page 2

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• I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

  Zoe Kazan

  Play, Grew Up, Difficult

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• I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

  Zoe Kazan

  Hate, Bed, Radio

  "Need to Meet: Zoe Kazan". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. February 11, 2010.

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• I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

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  Games, Mad, Luck

  "Need to Meet: Zoe Kazan". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. February 11, 2010.

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• When you're in the editing room, as a director, you get the opportunity to look at your work. As a writer, you can rewrite. But as an actor, unless you're watching playback, you really rely on the director to help you.

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  Opportunity, Editing, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I never wanted to be a playwright.

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  Wanted, Playwright

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.

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  People, Curious

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Writing, School

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.

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  First Love, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

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  Self, Bored, Tendencies

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Creativity, Men, Pygmalion

  "Zoe Kazan’s LA Dream Girl". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2012.

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• I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

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  Thinking, Profound, Magic

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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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.

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  Thinking, Comment, Gratification

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.

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  Kids, Feel Better, Thinking

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• I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.

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  Thinking, Painful Experiences, Watches

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

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• 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.

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  Writing, Down And, Force

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

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• 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.

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  Sibling, Thinking, Intense

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

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  Soul, Acting, Want

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• I am proud and embarrassed by how incredibly self-confident I was in my late teens and early 20s. I know that there were other things going on, too, but I had an overwhelming belief in myself. Like I said, I'm embarrassed by it and proud of it.

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  Self, Teens, Proud

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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  Feelings, Nervous, My Sister

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

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  Belief, Incredibles, Amount

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Half the fun is getting to play dress-up and imagine what it's like to be this other person. If you're not excited about a part where you get to use your imagination, then what's the point in doing it? It'll be just another job. Also, Director Michael Pressman and I see eye-to-eye with Marie.

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  Jobs, Fun, Eye

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Together

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• 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.

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  Writing, Exercise, Vision

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• 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.

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  Hate, Night, Listening

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I don't think a lot of people are like, "I'm just quirky!" Or if they are, it's a stage they're going through as they figure out who they are. I never felt like I was choosing roles that were quirky.

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  Thinking, People, Quirky

  Source: www.mtv.com

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