Quotes by Mike White

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I feel like I know how to write plot.

Mike White

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

Mike White

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

Mike White

It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.

Mike White

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.

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I used to have a road-rage issue.

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I'm a weird guy. I'm practically albino. What about me isn't weird?

Mike White

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

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

Mike White

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

Mike White

There's something magical about Oaxaca and the vibe of the people.

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To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive.

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I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. And there were all these, kind of, hipster New York kids who were so-called 'cultured' and...

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I'm not looking to be the King of Comedy, or the King of Hollywood. I just want to be able to keep making stuff that I'm into and have the opportunity to challenge myself with, wearing different hats.

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Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness.

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I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!

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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 dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how ...

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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.

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

Mike White

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.

Mike White

I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they're almost supposed to not want to engage.

Mike White