“Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out—and this happens to me a lot, actually—the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center. I think it is a much more emotional show than a satirical romp. In the end, it’s kind of a mini-drama. There are a lot of comedic moments, but they’re not always laugh-out-loud funny.” - Mike White, writer/actor/producer for Enlightened. 

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“It’s a cliche, it’s a New Age cliche, but, ‘Be the change you want to see.’ It’s like, ‘How do I create the things I want to see, and how can you make something that is compassionate and potentially can be healing to someone?’ Or, you know, they talk about in Buddhism, there’s Tonglen practice, which is someone breathing in the suffering of either yourself or others, and breathing out a kind of hopefulness. And you can see art or fiction or whatever being a version of that, where you try to create something that’s hopeful, that also recognizes pain and doesn’t run from the pain. It actually acknowledges it, because I feel like so much of entertainment right now is about distraction and a bombarding of … light and noise. … And whether I’ve succeeded in that or not, I feel like there is an impulse there. … Even if Enlightened fails, I don’t want to walk away from what I’m trying to achieve, which is try to make something that is a little bit more contemplative or a little slowed down or a little bit more about how do we live, as opposed to something that’s about distracting you from those questions.” - Mike White

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