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Mike White
Writer
Feel
Like
Me
People
Think
You
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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
Time
Myself
Procrastination
Too
Tool
Online
Computer
Writer
Had
Hairy
Like
Because
Within
Go
Getting
Just
Stop
Then
Used
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
Give
More
Feel
Like
Because
Opinions
Friends
Just
Scripts
Even
Need
Set
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
Change
Culture
People
Be Nice
Nice
Older
Sphere
Out
More
Almost
How
Than
Get
Trying
Personal
Just
Bigger
Realize
Your
Figuring
Challenging
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
My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.
Mike White
Freedom
Favorite
Favorite Thing
Follow
Able
Inspiration
Beat
Writer
Being
Hard
Thing
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
Me
Crazy
Suffering
People
Drive
Animals
Whatever
Systems
Seeing
About
Emotional
Rivers
Simply
Reaction
Because
Coming
Just
Polluting
Place
Things
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
Woman
Women
Men
Men And Women
See
Indie
About
Studio
Studios
Protagonist
Female
How
Male
Women And Men
Women Are
America
Goes
Just
Movie
Story
Interested
Movies
Who
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
You
Remember
College
Down
Kids
Kind
Had
Knew
New
Like
Know
Look
Pasadena
Were
References
Existence
Cultured
Up
Very
York
New York
So-Called
Grew
Suburban
Then
Much
Who
Connecticut
University
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