Lena Dunham Talks Woody Allen and More at Sundance Panel

Lena Dunham sat down at the Sundance Film Festival to discuss pushing humor boundaries, the director of Manhattan, as well as rape on college campuses in America.

"In some ways America is at its most puritanical," said the GIRLS creator and star at the festival's Power of a Story: Serious Ladies panel, in response to a question regarding some of the reactions GIRLS has received. "The fact is people are forgetting that humor is a tool for debate. That boycott, censorship, shut 'em down approach to humor shows a very basic lack of understanding of what humor can do for us culturally and what it has always done."

She also told the audience that she is quite different from her GIRLS character, Hannah Horvath, saying that, "People equate the words coming out of your character's mouth with a real life philosophy that you don't possess."

"I don't think that Larry David or Woody Allen or anyone else playing some version of themselves is walking around with a million people who think they know and understand them on a deep abiding level," Dunham said of the Oscar Award-winner "Woody Allen is proof that people don't think everything he says in his films is stuff that he does because all he was doing was making out with 17-year olds for years and we didn't say anything about it,"

Mindy Kaling, Kristen Wiig, and Jenji Kohan joined Dunham on the panel.

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