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

There's something magical about Oaxaca and the vibe of the people.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

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

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

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

It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.

As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

I feel like I know how to write plot.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.

I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!

Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history.

The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.

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

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

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.

Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness.

I do idiosyncratic dramedies.

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

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

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

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

'Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.

To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive.

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

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

I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.

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

I'm a weird guy. I'm practically albino. What about me isn't weird?

You can come to a political position from an emotional place.

You come to a point where you realize your work doesn't save you.

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

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.

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

I used to have a road-rage issue.

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?'