85 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

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.

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