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Lena Dunham

Its 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. – Lena Dunham

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. Its just a genre thats very human. – Lena Dunham

I feel like you dont know if someones equipped for a romantic relationship until theyre out of their twenties. – Lena Dunham

Ive only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people. – Lena Dunham

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties… I dont know if anyone would disagree with it: I think theyre the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because theyre scared of what an uncertain time it is, or theyre avoiding commitment altogether. – Lena Dunham

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, theres a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, theres so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them. – Lena Dunham

Im 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. – Lena Dunham

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 Im careful. I dont even know where my line is, but I know I have a line. – Lena Dunham

Theres always an article coming out, saying, The new thing is funny women! – Lena Dunham

Its funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway. – Lena Dunham

I mean, I – its 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. Ive been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out. – Lena Dunham

I feel like I dont watch that many shows with death. – Lena Dunham

Im not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax. – Lena Dunham

My uncles a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, Thats cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer. – Lena Dunham

Id love to write something for a male protagonist. Thats sort of the next frontier for me. I think itd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy. – Lena Dunham

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Annes thats a really kind of creative hot bed. – Lena Dunham

If youre writing, youre starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that its for other people – that comes in later. – Lena Dunham

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature. – Lena Dunham

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

My mom knows pretty well how I see her. – Lena Dunham