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" I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have to write this or I'll die. Like, this has to come out of me. "

Zoe Kazan

Never

Want

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Acting

Family

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Zoe Kazan

Fun

Someone

" 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

Talk

Living

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Zoe Kazan

Think

Movies

" Every role requires its own set of tools, and I think, because of that, it is very hard to ever feel totally prepared or totally able. "

" 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. "

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You

Living

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Parents

People

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" You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow. "

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Start

Story

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Work

Dinner

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Bad

Experience

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