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" I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies. "
Zoe Kazan
Boring
Patience
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" I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers. "
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" 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. "
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" When my first play was produced, I had this sudden feeling that I feel powerful. Like, the next time I go into an audition room, and it's me and the same eight girls as always, I will have this thing that no one can take away from me. They can see us all as interchangeable. But I am not interchangeable. "
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" I don't want to do every independent film offered to me. "
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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 can work a lot faster when I'm writing a screenplay than when I'm writing a play because, if I'm having a problem with a scene or something, I can just be writing it in a way where there's no dialogue, or find a way to make sound do the work that I want to do or a close-up do the work that I need to do. "
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" Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I wasn't raised in a family that cared about how you look. The fact that I have made my living in acting, where that matters, that really feels antithetical to me as a person. "
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" I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street. "
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Walk
" 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. "
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Life
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Sister
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else. "
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End Of The Day
Good
Look
" I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice. "
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Luck
Mad
" I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people. "
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Curious
People
" 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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" When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work. "
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Words
Thinking
Think
" I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did. "
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Parents
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" There's something really earnest inside me all the time. It's not a cool or fun way to be. Sometimes I would like to experience being someone who's not wired the way I'm wired. "
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" 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. "
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Force
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" I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people. "
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Like
" I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a kid. And I lived in Spain for a while. "
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Woman
Spain
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" I remember being two, maybe, and hearing my mum's typewriter in the other room and sticking my hands under the door and screaming, 'Mum! Mum!' I was so angry she wouldn't come out. I got used to it quickly. "
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Two
She
" I never wanted to be a playwright. "
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