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 think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously. — Mike White Copy Share Image
Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history. — Mike White History Copy Share Image
I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change — 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
What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character,… — 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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let… — Mike White Actor Copy Share Image
I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books… — Mike White Book 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 started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire… — Mike White Acting 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
You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any… — 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
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them. — Mike White Copy Share Image
It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations. — Mike White Creator Copy Share Image
I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes… — Mike White Crisis Copy Share Image
There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper… — Mike White Copy Share Image
As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost… — Mike White Being nice Copy Share Image
People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write. — Mike White Copy Share Image
