I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
— Zoe Kazan
I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
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.
I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.
When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.
I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.
Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
I never wanted to be a playwright.
