An excerpt from the interview:

[Lena Dunham]: Most of my film friends are guys, that’s just how it ends up. I don’t have an overwhelming amount of girlfriends who want to make films. So I was talking to some of my film-guy-friends, and one of them made a comment and said, “You know girls can be funny, it’s just a lot harder.” And it was amazing to me. I couldn’t believe this was actually coming out of his mouth. I didn’t even fight back, because I didn’t even know how to address a statement like that.

[Pamela Kerpius]: Like it was such a shocking moment to have that come into your consciousness that you didn’t even know how to respond?

Exactly. Because that to me is such a ridiculously untrue statement that I’ve never even taken the time to figure out why it’s not true.

With filmmaking in general, I feel like it’s harder to know if all of your work is automatically going to be effected by being a woman, if your stories are all going to reflect coming from that standpoint. It’s like the oldest feminist discourse question...

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