To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive.

'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.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

I guess I’m trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

As an actor, it’s better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That’s always fun. It’s fun to just let go and be somebody else.

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.

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.

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

I don’t even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it’s, like, I don’t need one more set of opinions.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change.