When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up. — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own. — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share
It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend! — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
If you are the writer/director especially, no one cares more about the project than you do. You know it in and out. You created… — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
My actress friends would tell me their horror stories, or say they couldn't get work, and were deemed too old, even though they were… — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life. — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky. — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves. — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by. — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline. — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I will watch a ton of movies while I'm writing for inspiration. "Postcards from the Edge" was one. I love the mother-daughter relationship and… — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
In a way I'm lucky because when people suggest I won't be able to do something I have no choice but to show them… — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
