Lena Dunham Quotes
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I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.
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I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.
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I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
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The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.
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The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.
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I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
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I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.
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I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.
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I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.
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When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
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I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.
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I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.
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My mom knows pretty well how I see her.
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Everyone needs something from me.
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You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.
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I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.
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I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.
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It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.
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My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.
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I was raised on the Internet.
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I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.
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When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.
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It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
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I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.