Mike White
Mike White
Writer, producer, actor, and director who was on Enlightened on HBO.
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth28 June 1970
CityPasadena, CA
writing plot feels
I feel like I know how to write plot.
writing want enjoy
For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself.
buddhist men feet
To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.
letting-go expectations victory
There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.
stressful meditating
From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.
writing pages sometimes
Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.
whole-life whole seekers
My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.
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.
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.
nice annoying feels
I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.
voice giving bully
To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.
running book writing
People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big movies - not only are you writing this world that you're living in, but you're also simultaneously running a circus, and you can kind of start losing your mind like that.
people want easy
You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.
issues rage used
I used to have a road-rage issue.