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I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I'm able to compete in? ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#best #called #comedian #comedy #compete

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#get #i #kind #me #more

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#comedies #different #human #human world #i

I'm not married, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie sale section. I'm kind of a mess. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#buy #card #cost #dollars #frequently

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#characters #completely #could #different #eight

Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week. ↗

— Charles Keating

#director #eight #harder #indeed #lot

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#actually #because #i #i think #interested

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#conclusion #i #kind #more #movies

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#big #constructed #especially #friends #get

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#boring #figure #get #going #know