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I do idiosyncratic dramedies.
I used to have a road-rage issue.
I feel like I know how to write plot.
To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive.
I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.
There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.
A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.
As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.
Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness.
Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.
My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.
People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.
I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.
You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you.
I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.
There's something magical about Oaxaca and the vibe of the people.
I'm a weird guy. I'm practically albino. What about me isn't weird?
There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.
I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.
I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.
From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.
You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.
It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?'
I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.
The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change
I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change.
It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.
To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.
I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.
I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!
My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.
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.
People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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'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 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.