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" 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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" 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. "

Zoe Kazan

Think

Tools

Own

" 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. "

" My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom. "

" I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem. "

" I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Zoe Kazan

You

Living

" I never wanted to be a playwright. "

" When 'Ruby Sparks' came out, I had to do so many interviews where I had to explain the film and my politics. And I think there was a willful misunderstanding by some people. They thought the movie was trying to perpetrate the thing the movie was deconstructing. "

" I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Zoe Kazan

Acting

Family

" I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to do every independent film offered to me. "

" I do feel like I have the superpower of not caring about my body as an actor. "

" And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly. "

" I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people. "

Zoe Kazan

Films

Pretentious

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

Zoe Kazan

Start

Story

" 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

" If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop. "

" 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. "

Zoe Kazan

Fool

Moving

" 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. "

" Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny. "

" 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. "

" You can have a wonderful time doing a movie and believe in it completely, and then you see the final product, and it doesn't look anything like what you thought it was going to. "

" If I didn't find art valuable, I would stop doing my work and only work for justice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Zoe Kazan

My Life

World