Mike White
Mike White
Writer, producer, actor, and director who was on Enlightened on HBO.
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth28 June 1970
CityPasadena, CA
I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!
Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness.
Whew and my Lord. That was a ballgame.
character compassion trying
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.
believe self people
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
character reality emotional
I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.
art school thinking
I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.
girl thinking awards
Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.
I do idiosyncratic dramedies.