Quotes by Zoe Kazan

Zoe Kazan

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.

Children

Giving

Thinking

And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you’ve written and you’re like, ‘Hmm, there’s half a page that’s good here.’ Then you throw out everything else.

Half

Looks

The End Of The Day

And when I get bored, it’s like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

Bored

Self

Tendencies

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

Like Something

Parent

People

I am proud and embarrassed by how incredibly self-confident I was in my late teens and early 20s. I know that there were other things going on, too, but I had an overwhelming belief in myself. Like I said, I’m embarrassed by it and proud of it.

Proud

Self

Teens

I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to doing my work and having someone comment immediately. So I think that I’m a little hooked on that gratification structure.

Comment

Gratification

Thinking

I do not do my own taxes. It’s too many forms. “Here are my 70,000 forms. I have no idea.”I would be in jail.

Taxes

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?

Meaningful

Political

World

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

Boring

Movie

I don’t like pretentious films or pretentious people.

Film

People

Pretentious

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Quotes by Zoe Kazan

Zoe Kazan

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.

And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you’ve written and you’re like, ‘Hmm, there’s half a page that’s good here.’ Then you throw out everything else.

And when I get bored, it’s like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

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

I am proud and embarrassed by how incredibly self-confident I was in my late teens and early 20s. I know that there were other things going on, too, but I had an overwhelming belief in myself. Like I said, I’m embarrassed by it and proud of it.

I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to doing my work and having someone comment immediately. So I think that I’m a little hooked on that gratification structure.

I do not do my own taxes. It’s too many forms. “Here are my 70,000 forms. I have no idea.”I would be in jail.

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

I don’t like pretentious films or pretentious people.

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