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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.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

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.

From Zoe Kazan

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

From Zoe Kazan

My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.

From Zoe Kazan

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.

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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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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 don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

From Zoe Kazan

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.

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