Mike White Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“As an actor and a writer, the anxiety about doing TV is that you start to feel like you get married to one tone or one kind of idea and you feel like you want to be able to express a lot of different things.”

“I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.”

“My first job was with 'Dawson's Creek' where everybody looked good and they spoke better than you. It was kind of a wish fulfillment, fantasy-type show.”