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" All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force. "
College
Force
Left
" I always think there's this thing, when you live in New York, like, this unspoken agreement between everyone who lives there, like, 'We're sticking this out. It's the hardest place to live, but it's the best city in the world, so we are all going to do this together.' "
Live
Together
New York
" I don't like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it. "
Listen
Criticism
Thoughtful
" I'd quit my job at a production company and was like, 'I'm going to be a writer...' I became a temp, and it was the mid-nineties, when there was the Internet boom, and the normal group of graduates ready to fill in didn't exist. "
Company
Quit
Job
" I just saw 'Tiny Furniture' and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I'm the distributor of it. I was making copies and giving them out. "
Furniture
Out
Just
" I'm in charge of a lot of young women. They occasionally come to me for advice, and I have to wrangle them. "
Come
Young
Women
" I think a great negotiator is an aggressive negotiator, and we're aggressive negotiators, We're not worried about someone coming at us. "
Aggressive
Great
Someone
" I think it's weird that they're trying to make us be negative about 'Sex and the City'... Not HBO, but the press. Really, they're dying for us to say something negative about 'Sex and the City.' "
Weird
Us
Trying
" It is very hard work, but I am a big believer in not micromanaging; I hire really, really talented people and trust them to do their jobs. "
Work
Hard Work
I Am
" It's very hard to get together with your friends. You rarely see friends as a whole group. "
Group
Together
See
" It's when people come at you on Twitter and say really crazy things. That's the kind of stuff that I insulate myself from. All of that is not very interesting or helpful, but we have critics who sometimes really love us or sometimes don't, and it's really interesting for me to see what they don't like about it. "
You
Love
Me
" I was like, 'I don't get out of bed for less than $21 an hour!'... I temped at Chanel and the New York Stock Exchange, and then I'd come home and write. "
Home
Like
New
" I worked with Michael Bay on 'Transformers,' and I got to work with the writer of 'Transformers,' who's this really great guy whom I loved. "
Loved
Work
Got
" One of the reasons 'Boogie Nights' is one of my favorite movies is because it's about people in this gross industry, but they actually treat each other kind of like family. And at the end of the day, they're really kind to each other, and I feel like that is what we have. "
People
Family
End
" Our interests are pretty boundless, as is our appetite for new creative experiences. "
Pretty
New
Creative
" That's like - my thing is I'm always like, 'Oh, white men are ruining everything,' and Max's dad is like... don't say that in front of your son. "
Men
Say
Son
" The key is that when we disagree, we really hear the other one out and agree that there is a more elegant solution than one of us 'winning.' "
More
Disagree
Key
" The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life. "
Live
Time
City
" The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.' "
People
Character
Me
" We just want to be sure that what we're creating is pushing the ball forward for women and diversity in media. "
Women
Media
Diversity
" We've never had twin infants on set in all kinds of different roles. "
Kinds
Set
Never
" We want to talk to celebrities about the things celebrities don't normally talk about. Like, we'd love to get Kim Kardashian to talk to us about finance. She is a businesswoman, after all. "
Talk
Finance
Like
" We work the full year round to make 10 or 12 episodes, and 'The Good Wife' makes, like, 26 in that time or something, which I can't believe. I don't know how they do it. "
Work
Wife
Time
" What I always think about when I think about 'Girls' is Lena being in a scene where she's very vulnerable, possibly directing, acting, and she's probably written the dialogue. It's 2 in the morning. Everyone's tired. Everyone's grumpy. And she has a smile on her face and kindness for everyone who interacts with her. "
Kindness
Think
Smile
" When the insane people start the chatter, there's no way to win that fight. It's literally like arguing with someone who is speaking another language, so there's no engaging with that kind of stuff. "
Fight
Language
People
" You have trouble breastfeeding, and for some reason, it's supposed to be so organic that you feel like you're doing something incorrect. "
Trouble
Like
Doing
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