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I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
Zoe Kazan
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Zoe Kazan
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: September 9
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Film Actor
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Zoe Swicord Kazan
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I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, Oh, she was too X, or too Y, and it's too much of a quality.
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I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of it as an artistic bug because I didn't necessarily want to be an artist. It's just who I was and how I communicate.
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I wouldn't wear makeup, and I didn't like to let boys open the door for me because I felt like it was sexist.
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Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether it's a seed of something personal or an anxiety that turns into a play or an image that's in my mind and haunts me that I'm trying to investigate.
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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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I've worked with a lot of really famous people. It stops being weird really quickly. For me, at least.
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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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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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On a personal level, just for me in my own work, I would say the most interesting thing has been getting to work with the people that I've worked with.
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I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
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When I would get close on a part but wouldn't get it, I would be like, They made a mistake, which is not how I think about things now. I both admire it and I'm grateful for the modicum of health, knowledge, and humility that I have acquired over the last 10 or 15 years.
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I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.
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If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.
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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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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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I think a large part of an actor's job in preparation is just making the words feel organic to them, and obviously they came out of me, so they felt organic to me already. And then I think then it was all about clearing away all the other voices.
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We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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