There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television. — Mike White Lessons 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
It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?' — Mike White Copy Share Image
I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say… — Mike White Hate Copy Share Image
From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts. — Mike White Meditating Copy Share Image
To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully. — 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
People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences.… — Mike White Audience Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of my life is about a conversation I'm having with myself. I do interact with other people,… — Mike White Communication Copy Share Image
My first job was with 'Dawson's Creek' where everybody looked good and they spoke better than you. It was kind of a… — 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
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all… — Mike White Aesthetic 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'm not looking to be the King of Comedy, or the King of Hollywood. I just want to be able to keep… — Mike White Copy Share Image
The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever.… — Mike White Copy Share Image
If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just… — Mike White Copy Share Image
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… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to… — Mike White College 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
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 Collaborators 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 once volunteered to teach English as a second language, and I thought that I would have all these intense relationships with… — Mike White Copy Share Image
It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view. — Mike White Characters Copy Share Image
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music. — Mike White Family Copy Share Image
I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to. — 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
