Mike White
Mike White
Writer, producer, actor, and director who was on Enlightened on HBO.
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth28 June 1970
CityPasadena, CA
characters people tortured
People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.
coming drive emotional people reaction rivers seeing simply
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.
people
I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.
people
The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.
life people
People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.
nice people challenges
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.
believe self people
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
people life-is conversation
I feel like so much of my life is about a conversation I'm having with myself. I do interact with other people, but often I'm more interested in what I'm learning in the relationship I have with myself.
smart writing people
I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.
people want easy
You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.
people drug quality
People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a different kind of drug than for a certain kind of literary quality.
people shoulders thousand
I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.
change thinking people
I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change
cool nobility people stuff
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.