I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
Lena Dunham
I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.
It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.
I was raised on the Internet.
I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.
I'm half Jewish half WASP.
When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.
Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.
I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.
I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.
I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.
I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.
I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.
I don't really read reviews... That's not where my attention goes.
I love flawed female characters, duking it out.
I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
I had no friends. I worried a lot.
My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'
It's really hard to grow with another person.
There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.
My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.
It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
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 amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.
I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.
I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.
I have an agent now.
Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.
I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.
When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.
I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.
I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.
I love what I do, I love every minute of it.
All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.
I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.
I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.
I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
I am anti-pants.
I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.
My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.
I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.
I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.
I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.
