Lena Dunham’s parents were telling her to be quiet long before the rest of the world was. “Bless them,” she says, “they didn’t want to say, ‘Can you please shut up?’ So they would say sotto voce because they thought it sounded nicer in Italian,

After nearly eight years, Lena Dunham will return to TV this July with “Too Much,” a Netflix rom-com she created with husband Luis Felber. The “Girls” helmer said her long break from television was done by design. “I definitely took an intentional break,” she told The Times in an interview published Saturday.

"When the show ended, I didn’t know what direction to move in. I wasn’t young enough to be out and feeling fun and free," she recalled candidly