Mike White People Quotations

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

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.

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.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

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

The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It's not simply just about systems; it's an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering.

I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.

The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?' But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives.