Zoe Kazan famous quotes

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

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Children #Reading #First Love

It's fun for me to be with someone who loves reading as much as I do, because he'll give me things to read that I wouldn't normally seek out, and I think vice versa.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Fun #Reading #Thinking

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

#First Love #Firsts

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Movie #Boring

I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Girl #Lows #Starbucks

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

#Soul #Acting #Want

If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Feels

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
-- Zoe Kazan

#New York #People #Cafes

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Mom #Hero #Actors

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Waiting #Sitting

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

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Character #Talking #Stories

And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Children #Thinking #Giving

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

#The End Of The Day #Looks #Half

Well, 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.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Intense #Periods #Wells

I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
-- Zoe Kazan

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 #School #Writing

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

#Self #Bored #Tendencies

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

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
-- Zoe Kazan

#People #Parent

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
-- Zoe Kazan

#People #Film #Pretentious

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Movie Love #Painful #Theater

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 #Difficult

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 #Radio #Scripts

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Thinking #Actors #Cameras

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Character #Thinking #Plot

I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
-- Zoe Kazan

#People #Curious

I never wanted to be a playwright.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Wanted #Playwright

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

#Games #Mad #Luck

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.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Creativity #Men #Pygmalion

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.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Thinking #Actors #Watches

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.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Kids #Feel Better #Thinking

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.
-- Zoe Kazan

#Thinking #Profound #Magic