“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.” WritingSometimesSeemsHappensSituationFrontsPagesMelancholy Author:Mike White
“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.” PeopleWritingSeemsYoungFeltStuffSmartPullingCurtainsExposingFrail Author:Mike White
“I've never been to the Oscars, but if I was ever invited to the Oscars, I would have this weird paranoia of terrorism. It just feels like The Poseidon Adventure, everyone in their tuxes. Somehow, I feel like the whole time I would be looking for where the nearest exit was, and in a cold sweat about some kind of man-made disaster, like a terrorist strike or something. It seems like such a scary, claustrophobic proposition.” IfsMenFeelsKindMadeWholeSeemsWould BeAdventureColdScaryTerrorismStrikesDisasterTerroristSweatOscarsPropositionsInvitedExitParanoiaPoseidon Author:Mike White