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Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

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.

From Mike White

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

From Mike White

I feel like I know how to write plot.

From Mike White

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

From Mike White

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.

From Mike White

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.

From Mike White

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

From Mike White

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

From Mike White

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.

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