I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about… — Mike White Curtains 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 who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big… — Mike White Big movie 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 Any 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 About Copy Share Image
It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?' — Mike White Always 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
I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them. — Mike White Am Copy Share Image
I'm a weird guy. I'm practically albino. What about me isn't weird? — Mike White About 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 Able Copy Share Image
You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with. — Mike White Easy Copy Share Image
I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions. — Mike White Feel Copy Share Image
I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change — Mike White Certain 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 Able 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 Able 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
I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is… — Mike White Almost 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
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 About 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 Because 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
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
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
To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage… — Mike White Belief Copy Share Image
It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations. — Mike White Creator Copy Share Image
