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….

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

I actually think it's helped me as a writer to have to act. It's only when you actually start putting yourself out that you appreciate the anxiety th….

People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big movies - not only are you writing thi….

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

I do idiosyncratic dramedies..

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

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..

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..

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

People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a d….

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder..

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 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 somet….

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 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 ….

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

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….

I used to have a road-rage issue..

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

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