Latest Mike White Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually, when I'm directing or producing, I've written it myself. I'm not really trying to get on some big horse that's running through town. I just make my own stuff.

  Mike White

  Running, Horse, Trying

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mike White

  Letting Go, Fun, Giving

  Source: collider.com

• People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big movies - not only are you writing this world that you're living in, but you're also simultaneously running a circus, and you can kind of start losing your mind like that.

  Mike White

  Running, Book, Writing

  Source: www.believermag.com

• For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself.

  Mike White

  Writing, Want, Enjoy

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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.

  Mike White

  People, Drug, Quality

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I feel like so much of my life is about a conversation I'm having with myself. I do interact with other people, but often I'm more interested in what I'm learning in the relationship I have with myself.

  Mike White

  People, Life Is, Conversation

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I actually think it's helped me as a writer to have to act. It's only when you actually start putting yourself out that you appreciate the anxiety that comes with having to try to sell a line, or with trying to own a character.

  Mike White

  Character, Thinking, Appreciate

  "An Interview with Filmmaker and Actor Mike White". Interview with Toph Eggers, believermag.com. March 19, 2014.