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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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" 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. "

Zoe Kazan

Life

Relationship

Sister

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" If I'm not working, I don't feel complete. "

" I never wanted to be a playwright. "

" I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies. "

" 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. "

Zoe Kazan

Fun

Someone

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" The causes for my eating disorder ran along the usual lines: depression, an inability to express my rage, a desire to exert control, a desire to feel less, a desire to have my body express the things my voice could not. That, and I had gotten in the habit of believing it was better to take up less space. "

" I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

" 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 love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well. "

Zoe Kazan

Bad

Experience

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

" 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 will be a broken record for justice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "