I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I frustrate myself as a writer. There are certain things that I'll think, 'Well, that would be really fun to play... if… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
My boyfriend's a musician, and I think when he's on stage is the only time he's not worrying. And so that's the… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I still go to a party and say something embarrassing to someone, and then write them a weird e-mail about it the… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together.… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
The only time I felt like a weird exploiter - even though I knew I wasn't one - was when I was… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“Oberlin being a liberal haven where opposition was king, the coolest clique at school was a group of rugby-playing, neon-wearing lesbians. They dominated every… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'? — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“I am sorry (not to you but in a deeper way, sorry for my brain chemistry and who I am.” — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from. But when you run, run… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
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