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" 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. "

Zoe Kazan

Politics

Thought

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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 want to derive pleasure from this planet and put pleasure back into it. "

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Luck

Mad

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You

Living

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a very serious person. Unfortunately, sometimes. "

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did. "

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Parents

People

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

" I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily. "

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Embarrass

Easily

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" I think a famous parent is really different from a famous grandparent. My parents are very successful, but no one knows who they are, and they live a completely grounded, homey life. I'm friends with the Gummer girls, whose mum is Meryl Streep, and that feels from the outside like a different kind of burden. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Bad

Experience

" 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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My Life

World

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