Zitat des Tages von Mike White:
People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.
There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.
There's something magical about Oaxaca and the vibe of the people.
I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.
It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.
Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness.
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.
My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.
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.
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 want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.
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.
There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.
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.
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.
To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.
'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.
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.
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
You can come to a political position from an emotional place.
The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.
You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.
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.
I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.
I do idiosyncratic dramedies.
I used to have a road-rage issue.
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.
