“I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.” PeopleParentLike Something Author:Zoe Kazan
“I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.” PeopleCurious Author:Zoe Kazan
“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.” PeopleWalksNew YorkSubwayCafes Author: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.” PeopleWorldFeelsWritingRealSometimesLeapImaginative Author:Zoe Kazan
“My grandmother told me: "We all dated lots of different boys because no one was having sex or kissing. It was just going out for sodas and getting to know people. It didn't seem like there was a threat." I think now we have more ideas of people having premarital and unprotected sex.” PeopleThinkingKnowsIdeasDifferentSeemsSexBoysKissingThreatGrandmotherGoing OutMy GrandmotherHaving SexSoda Author:Zoe Kazan
“When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."” PeopleKnowsWantLooksMayHurtProud Author:Zoe Kazan
“Too often in the theatre people can't wait for intermission to get some chocolate or something. But with Come Back, Little Sheba I just hope people leave feeling like they've spent a really good two-hours in that house with us.” PeopleLittlesTwoFeelingsHouseWaitingHoursTheatreChocolateIntermission Author:Zoe Kazan
“On a personal level, just for me in my own work, I would say the most interesting thing has been getting to work with the people that I've worked with.” PeopleHas BeensMy OwnInterestingLevelsMost InterestingInteresting Things Author:Zoe Kazan
“I've gotten incredibly lucky with the people I've gotten to work with. It's made my mind better, and it's made me a better person.” PeopleMindPersonsMadeLuckyBetter Person Author:Zoe Kazan
“I had a real feeling of being fated to be an actor and do my work, and I remember so much speaking up in a room full of people who authentically knew as much or more than me, and feeling like I was absolutely equal, and what I had to say was important.” PeopleImportantRealFeelingsRememberActorsRoomsEqualSpeaking UpReal Feelings Author:Zoe Kazan
“I've worked with a lot of really famous people. It stops being weird really quickly. For me, at least.” PeopleBeing Weird Author:Zoe Kazan
“I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative way. It made me feel weird about the way that we treat people that are famous, and it made me feel weird about fame in general.” PeopleWayFeelsMadeGrewFameGrew UpTreatsRelativeGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBeing Famous Author:Zoe Kazan
“I don't think a lot of people are like, "I'm just quirky!" Or if they are, it's a stage they're going through as they figure out who they are. I never felt like I was choosing roles that were quirky.” PeopleThinkingQuirky Author:Zoe Kazan
“Most of the things I'm talking about are essential human rights. I don't think it should be political to say that children should be able to have lunch at school when their families can't afford to feed them properly, or to say women should have access to basic health care, or that Muslims deserve equal protection under the law, or police shouldn't be killing black people and getting away with it - it shouldn't be a political thing to say. A lot of people on the right standing behind Christian values should be standing with us, because equality is a basic tenet of Christianity.” PeopleThinkingChildrenCareSchoolChristianPoliticalValuesBlackChristianityEqualDeservePoliceKillingHuman RightsProtectionHealth CareGet AwayBlack People Author: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.” PeopleThinkingWritingDifferentIndividualImagineMiranda Author:Zoe Kazan
“There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but I think it's an enormous privilege to be born into a family where my parents had enough time to read to me and listen to my stories and foster my imagination. It's a privilege to have time to investigate your imagination. And not to have, like, an amount of stress on you as a kid that prevents you from maturing creatively.” PeopleThinkingEnoughKidsParentImaginationStressMatureNurtureMy Imagination Author:Zoe Kazan
“I will say they were horrified when I wanted to be an actor. It wasn't a showbiz-y family, and my parents are real introverts who don't go to a lot of Hollywood parties and are most comfortable in their pajamas in our sweet little home. Part of the reason I wanted to be an actor and not just a writer is because I felt much more extroverted than that - I love to be around people, and feed off people's energy, and collaborations. If I hadn't had their example, I wouldn't have been so serious, but I also wouldn't have wanted so much to find another creative outlet.” PeopleRealReasonHomeEnergyParentPartyCreativeSeriousSweetCollaborationIntrovert Author:Zoe Kazan
“I think even probably the people we look up to the most, and think are on the Mount Olympus of actors - they're still experiencing nervousness.” PeopleThinkingLook UpNervousness Author:Zoe Kazan
“I grew up in LA, and I don't think I've seen LA onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between. I wanted to see a movie that was set in LA that wasn't about the film industry. LA is such a lonely place to be alone. In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafés, you can talk to people. In LA, no one talks to each other, you're in your house, you're in your car, even when you take walks there's no one on the street.” PeopleThinkingRealFilmHouseCarLonely Author:Zoe Kazan
