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" It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?' "

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" 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. "

" To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully. "

" 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. "

" I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them. "

" I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life. "

" The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions. "

" Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow. "

" I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school. "

" 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 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 believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them. "

" People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write. "

" You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan. "

" '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 grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music. "

" As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling. "

" 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 think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change. "

" You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?' But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives. "

" My first job was with 'Dawson's Creek' where everybody looked good and they spoke better than you. It was kind of a wish fulfillment, fantasy-type show. "

" My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something. "

" To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive. "

" I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy. "

" My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat. "

" I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to. "

" My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters. "

" Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center. "