When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it generally more cinematic. I would stick too closely to my own experience and not necessarily think about the fact that it needs to have an event happen. Realising that I could channel my own experience into a story that was slightly more cinematic was a very important moment for me - allowing myself to accept that the kind of screenwriting I'm doing is a work of fiction.
Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary. - Lena Dunham
Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.
- Lena Dunham
Now if you went to someone's house to look for them, you would be a psychopath. - Lena Dunham
Now if you went to someone's house to look for them, you would be a psychopath.
You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with… - Lena Dunham
You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with…
There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts from writing to s… - Lena Dunham
There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts from writing to s…
Enjoy going through life as yourself. - Lena Dunham
Enjoy going through life as yourself.
I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to … - Lena Dunham
I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to …
Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading. - Lena Dunham
Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.
Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe… - Lena Dunham
Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe…
Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence. - Lena Dunham
Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.
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