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
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
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
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
But my family’s really close and I was interested in what Mommy and Daddy did for a living. So when Mommy and Daddy had a script that wasn’t totally age inappropriate, they would let me read it. And we would talk about it. – Zoe Kazan
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
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
I have mad luck. I’m super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice. – Zoe Kazan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it’s probably a character problem. – Zoe Kazan
