Zoe Kazan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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 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 really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.”

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

“In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.”

“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.”

“I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.”