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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. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#anxiety #been #bit #feel #female

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#doing #done #else #guess #i

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

— Lena Dunham

#different #different thing #directing #feel #filmmaker

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. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#alice #ball #because #bouncing #cast

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. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#being #brain #director #eating #experts

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#been #better #feels #going #i

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#began #british #entering #felt #first

There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!' ↗

— Lena Dunham

#article #coming #funny #new #new thing

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #i write #never #really #themes

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#end #in the end #into #novel #pour