Dan Harmon Quotes
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.
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I guess working in the legitimate industry, the best thing you can take away from it is acceptance of the incompetence that often surrounds you. No, that sounds horrible. The most important thing, I guess, is the fact that working in the legitimate industry, what I see all too often is people trying to interpret the wishes of the audience, which with today's technology, is all too easy to measure empirically.
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Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.
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I have to be really careful, because I have nothing but love for this entity known as "the customer" in entertainment. I would never, ever, ever put myself above them and say, "They don't get it, but it's funny, believe me." If they're not laughing, I'm doing my job wrong.
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
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I surround myself with loyalists and people that I would die for. I just would rather die than make bad stuff for people because I'm a terrible dishwasher and a terrible lover and a terrible pet owner.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.
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Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.
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'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.
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If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it is human and all humanity is better than everything inhuman. So I urge you to keep expressing yourself as honestly as you can, and know that the backpedals and second-guesses really aren't necessary - they don't hurt but they're wasting your time - because when you are truly human, as we all are, and when that is your honest message to anyone, you are beyond reproach, there is no way to screw it up.
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There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird.
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Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.
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I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like a joke, in case He is in charge.
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Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something is gone, the dust will settle and I'll see what's next.
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Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.
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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
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There are two kinds of people in this world. There are the people that will have you think that there are two kinds of people in this world, and there are the 'good; people. There is no good, there is no evil, there is just a war going on between the people that want you to think there's a war going on and the people that know there doesn't have to be one.
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The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.
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I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.
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All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.
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I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story
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I really like performing for people.
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I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.
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