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. — 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
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them. — 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 how they… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music. — 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 to tell… — 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 that. Usually,… — Mike White Copy Share Image
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 Image
From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts. — 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 more challenging… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to. — Mike White Copy Share Image
