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 dysfun….

Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melanc….

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

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

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

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

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 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 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..