132 Quotes by Mike White

I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!

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.

To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.

What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show.

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.

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.

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.

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