Zoe Swicord Kazan (born September 9, 1983) is an American actress, screenwriter, and playwright. Read full biography of Zoe Kazan →
My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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...... →
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... →
But my family's really close and I was interested in what Mommy and Daddy did for a living. So when Mommy and Daddy had a script that wasn't... →
I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and... →
I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something... →
I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog... →
I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a... →
Zoe Swicord Kazan (born September 9, 1983) is an American actress, screenwriter, and playwright.