I think that the essential thing that people don’t understand is that the personal is universal and that the more personal something is the more people can relate to it, [whereas] the more you water it down the more it feels like nobody made it…If every person in a position to make new content got that concept we would see mediocrity disappear. You’d hate things or you’d love them, but they’d really be what they were.

-From Lena Dunham as interviewed by Bill Simmons (!) on The B.S. Report.  Whether you love her stuff or hate it (and no one’s ambivalent), there’s no denying that she’s incredibly smart and is a dynamite interview—insightful, funny, humble, eloquent and very endearing.  There’s no one else I’d rather listen to talking about her work and the industry.  And I think her career trajectory—making the leap from indie film to cable TV—marks an industrial sea change, as it’s a reversal of what folks have historically tried to do.  But who in her right mind wouldn’t prefer working in TV as opposed to the movies at this moment in time?  For a narrative artist, being a showrunner has to be the creative pinnacle of the entertainment industry as it’s currently constructed.  (via johnnycaseinwonderland)


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