“I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.”
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“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.”
AgeAll Quotes by Lena Dunham
“I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.”
Funny“I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.”
Nature“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.”
Hope“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.'”
Cool“I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.”
Amazing“I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.”
Death“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.”
Age“None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.”
Family“It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.”
Funny“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.”
Positive“At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.”
Age“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.”
Movies“I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.”
Funny“My mom knows pretty well how I see her.”
Mom“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.”
Amazing“My parents are artists in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.”
Relationship“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.”
Dating“I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.”
Relationship“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.”
Mom