Lena Dunham

“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”

“I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is...”

“I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.”

“It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because...”

“I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.”

“It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourse...”

“I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.”

“You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my cr...”

“I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.”

“I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.”

“I love flawed female characters, duking it out.”

“I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.”

“I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth proc...”

“I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I...”

“When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.”

“I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.”

“I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stutteri...”

“I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.”

“I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it real...”

“There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'”