Dan Harmon Quotes

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Dan Harmon

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 3, 1973

I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.

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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

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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 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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My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.

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Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.

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I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.

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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.

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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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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

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Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.

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When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

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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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I really like performing for people.

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I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

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I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

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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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