Quotes by "Mike White"

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 had so much, you know, like knew all the references and, like, already had their look down.

My first job was with 'Dawson's Creek' where everybody looked good and they spoke better than you. It was kind of a wish fulfillment, fantasy-type show.

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 feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.

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.

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.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

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.

The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.

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