Quotes from Lena Dunham

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

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.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

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.

There's a certain grace to having your heart broken.

I love what I do, I love every minute of it.

Here's who it's okay to share a bed with: . . . A heating pad. An empty bag of pita chips. The love of your life.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.

Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.

I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated each other and were sort of in love with each other.

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

What a snarky jerk. (Obviously, I later slept with him.)

We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

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

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.