“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny ...” — Mike White Quote

“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.”

“To be perfectly honest, I'm competitive.”

“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.”

“In all my experience - I had a very serious spinal injury - my entire career was only 11 years long, I can tell you that no one in Hollywood ever asked me for my political affiliation or my religious beliefs or anything like that. What they care about is making money.”

“I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.”

“Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.”