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Zoe Kazan
Zoe Kazan
American Actress
Born: Sep 9, 1983
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My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is. Zoe Kazan
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I do feel like I have the superpower of not caring about my body as an actor. Zoe Kazan
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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. Zoe Kazan
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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. Zoe Kazan
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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. Zoe Kazan
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When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work. Zoe Kazan
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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
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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. Zoe Kazan
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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
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I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between. Zoe Kazan
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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
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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
Love Playwriting Find Theater Movies Much Really Painful
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
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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. Zoe Kazan
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I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street. Zoe Kazan
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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
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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
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People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health. Zoe Kazan
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies. Zoe Kazan
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If I'm not working, I don't feel complete. Zoe Kazan
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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
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Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on. Zoe Kazan
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I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a kid. And I lived in Spain for a while. Zoe Kazan
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You can have a wonderful time doing a movie and believe in it completely, and then you see the final product, and it doesn't look anything like what you thought it was going to. Zoe Kazan
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I can work a lot faster when I'm writing a screenplay than when I'm writing a play because, if I'm having a problem with a scene or something, I can just be writing it in a way where there's no dialogue, or find a way to make sound do the work that I want to do or a close-up do the work that I need to do. Zoe Kazan
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Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny. Zoe Kazan
Music Art Writing Tyranny Tools Only Been Effective Historically Against Film
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