Lena Dunham

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.