Quotes by Zoe Kazan

About Zoe Kazan:

Zoe Swicord Kazan is an American actress, screenwriter, and playwright. Kazan made her acting debut in Swordswallowers and Thin Men (2003) and later appeared in films such as The Savages (2007), Revolutionary Road (2008) and It's Complicated (2009). She starred in happythankyoumoreplease (2010), Meek's Cutoff (2010) and Ruby Sparks (2012), for which she wrote the screenplay. In 2014, she starred in the film What If and the HBO mini-series Olive Kitteridge, for which she received an Emmy nomination.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

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

I never wanted to be a playwright.

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

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

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

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 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 ...

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

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

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

Zoe Kazan

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

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 don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

Zoe Kazan

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

Zoe Kazan

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

Zoe Kazan

I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.

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

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

Never underestimate a good sleep.

Zoe Kazan

Author Bio

  • NameZoe Kazan
  • DescriptionActress, writer
  • BornAugust 9, 1983
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Screenwriter; Playwright