I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.
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 do idiosyncratic dramedies.
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
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.
As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.
You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.
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.
To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.
To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.
There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.
I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.
I've never been to the Oscars, but if I was ever invited to the Oscars, I would have this weird paranoia of terrorism. It just feels like The Poseidon Adventure, everyone in their tuxes. Somehow, I feel like the whole time I would be looking for where the nearest exit was, and in a cold sweat about some kind of man-made disaster, like a terrorist strike or something. It seems like such a scary, claustrophobic proposition.
