I do idiosyncratic dramedies.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.

I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.

I used to have a road-rage issue.

As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.