I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
— Lena Dunham
I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.
I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.
I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.
I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.
It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.
I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.
You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.
My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.
There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'
Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.
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.
I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
I love flawed female characters, duking it out.
I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.
I have an agent now.
When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
I don't really read reviews... That's not where my attention goes.
I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
I kind of look like every other girl, walking around.
I'm half Jewish half WASP.
I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.
The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.
There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.
Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.
I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.
My mom knows pretty well how I see her.
I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.
I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.
I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.
When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.
I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.
I was raised on the Internet.
I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.
I'm glad if my work can make a difference.
It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.
There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.
My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'
I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.
I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.
I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.
The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.
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 quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.
At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.
