Lena Dunham Quotes - Page 11

One of the reasons I'm so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.

I don't think anyone would want to come to my gallery show.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone's welcome to join me.

For me, my life goal is to be in a position where I can wear pajamas 24 hours a day. That's what makes me happy.

For straight, hetero people it's very easy to unintentionally say something that might not honor people's identities fully, and Grace Dunham is a really amazing educational resource.

I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.

A huge part of the American trans population that's often overlooked are trans teenagers. Many of them are homeless, and those are not the people who are necessarily going in for a custom suit. But that's one of the reasons why we were excited that we got to do a contest with HBO to sponsor a young person getting a suit made who might not have the means to do it on their own.

Not to speak for Jason [Benjamin], but he's a straight married dude with two kids.

As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something you felt comfortable in that would properly express your identity, especially when your identity didn't feel like it necessarily matched the one that was being imposed on you.

The only time I felt like a weird exploiter - even though I knew I wasn't one - was when I was writing a sex scene between me and my adorable co-star [Adam Driver] in which he had to tell me how much he loved my potbelly. It seemed like a weird wish-fulfillment thing, where I'm directing my own fantasy.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.

I don"t feel like there are a tremendous amount of roles for the size I am.

Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality.

I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working on a book and working, and just jam it in whenever it makes sense.

I've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own concept, it's really important.

A girl's night for me is with a member of my family on the couch, eating takeout, watching something good, going to sleep early, it's so boring, but it's just what I need!

I support Selfies! I think the war on selfies is really unjust!

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

I hate to be the person that's like, "We're doing something that's never been done before."

I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking to the rest of the family.

You get reactions and you connect to people and I love Twitter.