I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to. — Mike White Copy Share Image
I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them. — Mike White Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat. — Mike White Copy Share Image
I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire… — Mike White Copy Share Image
You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV.… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like:… — Mike White Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about… — Mike White Copy Share Image
As an actor and a writer, the anxiety about doing TV is that you start to feel like you get married to… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I actually think it's helped me as a writer to have to act. It's only when you actually start putting yourself out… — Mike White Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money… — Mike White Copy Share Image
People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them. — Mike White Copy Share
I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they… — Mike White Copy Share
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music. — Mike White Copy Share
I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell… — Mike White Copy Share
I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually,… — Mike White Copy Share
I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose… — Mike White Copy Share
As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging… — Mike White Copy Share
The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not… — Mike White Copy Share
The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions. — Mike White Copy Share
