“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
“I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical. I wouldn't wear makeup, and I didn't like to let boys open the door for me because I felt like it was sexist. My heart was in the right place, but I was such a tiny dictator about it. It's embarrassing to me now because I was so rigid. It's such a rigid way of looking at the world. There's something very young about that mind-set.” WorldWayMindHeartBookYoungNamesFeltBoysDoorsMy HeartClothesTinyBrandsMakeupDictatorEmbarrassingRight PlaceSexistMind SetBrand Names Author:Zoe Kazan
“I don't feel like I possess a particular political intelligence, and when I read work that does, I feel like somebody else is going to have the right political thing to say. As a citizen, I feel an enormous need to respond, and immediately post-election, I felt like, What is my work worth? Should I quit what I'm doing and go work on the 2018 election now? How is what I'm putting into the world meaningful?” WorldPoliticalElectionQuittingMeaningfulI Quit Author:Zoe Kazan
“I think everyone is always asking themselves, How is my work meaningful, how is my life meaningful? As I get older, I feel like who I am as a person and a citizen is more important than who I am in my work. But I do think it reframed slightly for me, how much I have to care about a project in order to want to do it. Sometimes, obviously, you have a take a job for money. But I think I'm quicker now when I get a script that's, say, borderline misogynist, I'm not going to go in for it. I'm thinking more about what I'm putting into the world.” ThinkingWorldImportantSometimesCareMeaningfulMeaning Of LifeMeaningful LifeLife MeansBorderline Author:Zoe Kazan
“I just don't care that much about how famous I am. I care a lot about our world, and whether our planet will survive. It seems really low-stakes how many Twitter followers I have, in the grand scheme of things. In 80 years, who will care?” WorldCareI Care Author:Zoe Kazan
“If I was born into a household with anxiety about money, I wouldn't have had as much freedom to be in my own world. So it's impossible for me to divorce the privilege of my childhood from the other things.” WorldImpossibleChildhoodAnxietyDivorce Author:Zoe Kazan
