Mike White Quotes

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

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.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

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.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

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

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

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 used to have a road-rage issue.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I feel like I know how to write plot.

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

I do idiosyncratic dramedies.

As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.

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

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.

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