I like directing a lot. Katja Blichfeld is known for her work on High Maintenance (2016), High Maintenance (2012) and 30 Rock (2006). Does this item bring me joy?”—but on a more existential level. The weed that we're smoking is so much stronger than it ever was. They’re going to put small farmers out of business, potentially. When we started High Maintenance, I don’t think anyone thought we were gonna be anything noteworthy. Maybe. it's always so hard to pinpoint the origin because it becomes such a blur of conversation. But I find that a lot of the people that one becomes close with are often a product of circumstance: you’re all in the same shitty job together or something like that. Ben and I are the showrunners of our show, so I have the creative authority to change things on the spot. I still smoke almost every day. But that’s not how I look at people, so I’m always careful to ask questions like, “How do you spend your time?” instead of “What do you do?” I find myself very often defined by my work, but I don’t want to assume that everyone else is defined by theirs. NEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Stareable Fest 2020, the third annual premier web series and indie TV festival, announces Katja Blichfeld, from HBO's High Maintenance series, will be The home of web series and indie TV talent. And the high that people are getting is way different—the pesticides being used. And Ben. My relationship with Ben definitely had really high-highs and super low-lows. She would say, ‘I would never say that,’ because of these reasons. Then I'm like, Wait. I think anyone who does creative stuff and gets paid for it can probably attest to the fact that, yeah, it feels like a job at a certain point. But I think about people who live in other situations where it’s not as easy to get their hands on it. We look for writers who have observational acumen, and that has served us very well. ELLE.com got on the phone with co-creator, writer, and director Blichfeld to talk about the series’ run, vulnerability in storytelling, and telling meta tales. And then we saw Abigail Bengson’s audition and that is, for me, when it really came together. I’m writing a screenplay with my partner, Adele. Now, I think I’m very wary of saying too much about my relationship because I feel protective of it. That took so much pressure off, as a director. They don’t really care about the history or the culture or the experience behind cannabis. A lot of the time, directing feels like you’re an air traffic controller, especially if you have the good fortune to be part of a crew that’s really great at their jobs. I’m a person who lives in a city, so it’s never not available to me. And the show happened very quickly after that. Lily Collins Says Emily in Paris Is Not 22, Yara Shahidi Joins Live-Action 'Peter Pan' Movie, Madison Bailey Spills 'Outer Banks' S2 Secrets, Amelia Eve on Deleted Dani/Jamie 'Bly Manor' Scene, Love Radiates From the Films of Garrett Bradley, Princess Anne's Life in Photos: The 1960s and '70s.