Zoe Kazan Quotes

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

"Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny."

"If I didn't find art valuable, I would stop doing my work and only work for justice."

"I will be a broken record for justice."

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

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

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

"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."

"You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow."

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

"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."

"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 never wanted to be a playwright."

"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."

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

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

"I don't want to do every independent film offered to me."

"I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people."

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

"My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom."

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

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

"I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice."