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All Quotes by author - Mike White
" A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists. "
" As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling. "
" As an actor and a writer, the anxiety about doing TV is that you start to feel like you get married to one tone or one kind of idea and you feel like you want to be able to express a lot of different things. "
" As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture. "
" From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts. "
" 'Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge. "
" I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them. "
" I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person. "
" I do idiosyncratic dramedies. "
" I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions. "
" I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder. "
" I feel like I know how to write plot. "
" If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men aren't interested in the woman's story. They just aren't. "
" I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas. "
" I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music. "
" I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to. "
" I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help. "
" I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they're almost supposed to not want to engage. "
" I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life. "
" I'm a weird guy. I'm practically albino. What about me isn't weird? "
" I'm not looking to be the King of Comedy, or the King of Hollywood. I just want to be able to keep making stuff that I'm into and have the opportunity to challenge myself with, wearing different hats. "
" I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. And there were all these, kind of, hipster New York kids who were so-called 'cultured' and had so much, you know, like knew all the references and, like, already had their look down. "
" I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories. "
" I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep. "
" I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school. "
" I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it! "
" I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis. "
" I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously. "
" I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change. "
" It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?' "
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