Writing Quotes by Zoe Kazan

Zoe Kazan

I have a lot more writing experience than Paul Dano has, so to be able to put that experience to use in exercising his vision was almost an acting exercise: How would I write if I were Paul? When I look at it, it feels so completely his, but it’s also mine.

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Zoe Kazan

I think film writing, you’re thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you’re thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it’s also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

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Zoe Kazan

I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It’s funny to think of it as an “artistic bug” because I didn’t necessarily want to be an artist. It’s just who I was and how I communicate.

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Zoe Kazan

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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Zoe Kazan

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. I’d been thinking about what I would want to do with that if I was going to write on that theme, and one morning I woke up and Calvin and Ruby Sparks were in my head.

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Zoe Kazan

Lena Dunham or Miranda July, those people are sort of thinking about their work in a slightly different way than I do, where their whole body is a seed of what they’re creating. I can’t imagine watching Miranda’s movies with anybody else playing her role, she’s so integral. But for me, it feels more like every story is really individual. If I thought of something else, or thought it should be my body representing it, I’d fold my body into it. But most of the time I’m writing to get something out of my body.

People

Thinking

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Zoe Kazan

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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