Half the fun is getting to play dress-up and imagine what it's like to be this other person. If you're not excited about a part where you get to use your imagination, then what's the point in doing it? It'll be just another job. Also, Director Michael Pressman and I see eye-to-eye with Marie.
Zoe KazanI 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.
Zoe KazanPart of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.
Zoe KazanI'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. I'd been thinking about what I would want to do with that if I was going to write on that theme, and one morning I woke up and Calvin and Ruby Sparks were in my head.
Zoe KazanAnytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
Zoe KazanI 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.
Zoe Kazan