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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. "
Zoe Kazan
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" People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health. "
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" I do feel like I have the superpower of not caring about my body as an actor. "
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" People are always asking me - because of my family - if I ever feel pressure or feel like I have something to live up to. And having that in the back of my head, I've just learned to be really brave even in the face of feeling ill-prepared. "
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" I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people. "
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" Maybe this is a way of gaslighting myself, but I think of it this way: In certain circles, my grandpa was considered to be one of the seminal directors of the 20th century. I'm never going to be that. So I might as well do whatever I want. "
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" I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did. "
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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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" I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem. "
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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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" It was very hard for me to come back to a place of feeling normal about food and about my body. And then, when I came to the other side of it, it felt like something was gone. An exorcism. I still experience the same chemical swings and moods and pain, but I'm much better at dealing with it than I was at 18. "
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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 find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays. "
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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 encourage everyone to read James Baldwin and Malcom X and Aldous Huxley. To read Primo Levi. To read 'Silent Spring.' To read Toni Morrison. To read Zora Neale Hurston. "
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" Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between. "
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" 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. "
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" That moment in 'Broadcast News' where Holly Hunter is told how great it is to be the smartest person in the room, and she cries and says it's awful - I definitely have moments like that sometimes, moments when introspection and drive can be lonely-making. And it doesn't help that I have a partner who is very work-oriented. "
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" Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny. "
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" I'm a very serious person. Unfortunately, sometimes. "
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" Turning 30 changed me in ways I didn't expect. For the very first time, I felt like my life is valuable. Not my life because I'm putting something good into the world or I'm well-respected in my field, but my life as a human being on this planet for a limited amount of time. "
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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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" I never wanted to be a playwright. "
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