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I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.
Zoe Kazan
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Zoe Kazan
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: September 9
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Zoe Swicord 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.
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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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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.
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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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I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
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My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.
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Half the fun is getting to play dress-up and imagine what it's like to be this other person. If you're not excited about a part where you get to use your imagination, then what's the point in doing it? It'll be just another job. Also, Director Michael Pressman and I see eye-to-eye with Marie.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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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.
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Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.
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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.
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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've gotten incredibly lucky with the people I've gotten to work with. It's made my mind better, and it's made me a better person.
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When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say what people don't know won't hurt them.
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There are a lot of words that I knew first as a reader, and I never put the pieces together in my brain. The word segue I thought was pronounced seeg, I think until I went to college, which is horribly embarrassing.
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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.
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I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to doing my work and having someone comment immediately. So I think that I'm a little hooked on that gratification structure.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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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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