“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.”
Success
“You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.”
PoetryAll Quotes by Lena Dunham
“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“I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.”
Death“It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.”
Funny“I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.”
Dating“I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.”
Relationship“At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.”
Age“You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.”
Poetry“I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.”
Funny“My mom knows pretty well how I see her.”
Mom“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“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“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.”
Amazing“I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.”
Amazing“I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.”
Romantic“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 feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.”
Relationship“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“There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'”
Funny“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