Zoe Kazan Quotes

I'm not a playwright.

I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

Good scripts are hard to find.

I don't have a stack of scripts.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

I love writing for the screen.

If you have a great script and great dialogue, you don't need to improvise.

The hardest thing is to write a play, because you have to hold their attention for two hours, and if you let them go for five minutes, they're gone for good.

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.