Michael Penn : (4) " To me, playing with words is like playing with your food. You shouldn’t do it. " - Michael Penn " The nice thing about ‘Girls’ is, they don’t want a typical sitcom score, with those transitional pieces and stings. It’s more just finding little moments that need something to get you from one scene to the next. Then there are these opportunities for longer, more emotional pieces that I really love doing, where I can get into melody. " - Michael Penn " When you try in a relationship, there is a concerted effort to make it work on the part of one of the people. " - Michael Penn " I sort of felt like, as the black sheep, I didn’t want to go into the family business; everyone would think it was nepotism. " - Michael Penn