Mike White

“You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.”

“I used to have a road-rage issue.”

“I'm not looking to be the King of Comedy, or the King of Hollywood. I just want to be able to keep making stuff that I'm into and have the opportunity to challenge myself with, wearing different hats.”

“As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.”

“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 actually really help.”

“As an actor and a writer, the anxiety about doing TV is that you start to feel like you get married to one tone or one kind of idea and you feel like you want to be able to express a lot of different things.”

“My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.”

“I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.”

“To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive.”

“Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.”

“As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.”

“People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.”

“My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.”

“I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.”

“I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change.”

“People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.”

“A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.”

“You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.”

“To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.”

“I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they're almost supposed to not want to engage.”