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

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" There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself. "

" 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. "

" There's a victory in letting go of your expectations. "

" 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. "

" 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 feel like I know how to write plot. "

" 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. "

" Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history. "

" 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. "

" I do idiosyncratic dramedies. "

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

" You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you. "

" 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. "

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

" I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person. "

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

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

" You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with. "

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

" You can come to a political position from an emotional place. "

" I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it! "

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

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

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

" What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show. "

" '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. "