Mike White Quotes

Mike White

Writer

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

Victory Go Expectations Your Letting Letting Go

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

Disturbing Someone Self-Awareness Yeah

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

People Seriously Think Sets Take Very Often Movie Themselves Stressful

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. Mike White

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I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis. Mike White

Culture Experience Sometimes Become Living Think Our Crisis Feel Like Existential Rewarding Where Creates Now Right Universal

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. Mike White

Writing Tell Outgrowth Directing Writer Stories Little Acting Started Desire

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

You People Believe General Feel Them Even

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

Work You Point Come Where Realize Your Save

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. Mike White

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

You Political Emotional Come Place Position

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

People About Magical Something Vibe

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

Guess Would Write Stuff Trying Viewer Connect

To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive. Mike White

Perfectly Competitive Honest

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

You Director Controlling Writer

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

Life Seeker Something Been Whole Searching

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

Life Reality Television Life Lessons Reality Television Derived Lessons

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

Music Family Religious Allowed Rock Rock Music Were Up Listen Grew

The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not simply just about systems; it's an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering. Mike White

You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?' But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives. Mike White

You People World Think Out Nobility Stuff Like Look Housewives Real Doing Any Then Who Cool Lives Start Watch

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

History Three Most Times Worked Shows

If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men aren't interested in the woman's story. They just aren't. Mike White

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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. Mike White

World Compassion Approach Characters About Aesthetic Trying Impulse Create Humanistic

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

Writing Compassion Characters Feel Like Am Want Them

I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. And there were all these, kind of, hipster New York kids who were so-called 'cultured' and had so much, you know, like knew all the references and, like, already had their look down. Mike White

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