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...”

“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'...”

“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...”

“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!”