Zitat des Tages von Lena Dunham:
I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.
My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.
I'm half Jewish half WASP.
I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.
I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.
I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.
When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.
I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.
When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.
I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.
I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
I don't really read reviews... That's not where my attention goes.
I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.
My mom knows pretty well how I see her.
I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.
I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.
I love what I do, I love every minute of it.
I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.
I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.
I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.
I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.
I was raised on the Internet.
It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.
I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.
It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.
It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.