Dan Harmon Quotes - Page 2

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• I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Wish, Maintenance

  Twitter post from Dec 2, 2011

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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.

  Dan Harmon

  Jobs, Writing, Genius

  "Dan Harmon walks us through Community's second season". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2011.

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• I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life.

  Dan Harmon

  Caring, College, Study Group

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• With media, it's never bad-to-good. It's always just moving from different to different. Faster, more stuff, but there's always good, more good, and more bad.

  Dan Harmon

  Moving, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everything I do, in the middle of it, I lose all objectivity. The business of comedy is kind of ridiculous in that respect. Your job is to have a lot of fun in a jar, then sell it. There's something inherently illogical and impossible about that, but that being said, this is as good as it gets.

  Dan Harmon

  Fun, Ridiculous, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Dan Harmon

  Technology, Dust, Parent

  "Dan Harmon Talks RICK AND MORTY, Working for Adult Swim, Animation vs Live-Action, COMMUNITY, and Much More". Press Tour Interview, collider.com. July 27, 2013.

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

  Dan Harmon

  Hatred, Wish, Television

  "The Showrunner Transcript: Community’s Dan Harmon on Finale Cameos and Season-Long Lessons". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, www.vulture.com. May 13, 2011.

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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.

  Dan Harmon

  Games, People, Tvs

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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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.

  Dan Harmon

  Acceptance, Technology, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Dan Harmon

  Party, Class, Likes

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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.

  Dan Harmon

  Holiday, Numbers, Tvs

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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.

  Dan Harmon

  Creative, Pioneers, Use

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• My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

  Dan Harmon

  Dog, Crazy, Cat

  Twitter post from May 21, 2012

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• I think thoughts in my head bounce around in my skull and, if they keep bouncing around in my skull, they get worse and worse. When they come out of my mouth, they make people happy.

  Dan Harmon

  Thinking, Skulls, People

  "Dan Harmon Talks RICK AND MORTY, Working for Adult Swim, Animation vs Live-Action, COMMUNITY, and Much More". Interview, collider.com. July 27, 2013.

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• I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

  Dan Harmon

  Done, Appreciated, Wells

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• I grew up on network sitcoms. If those are gone when I'm 65 years old, I would never forgive myself for not stepping up to that plate, as often as possible. I'm already bummed out that DVDs are dying off because, in my 20s, those were a huge thing.

  Dan Harmon

  Dvds, Years, Forgiving

  "Dan Harmon Talks RICK AND MORTY, Working for Adult Swim, Animation vs Live-Action, COMMUNITY, and Much More". Press Tour Interview, collider.com. July 27, 2013.

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• Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.

  Dan Harmon

  Ideas, People, Ego

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• I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

  Dan Harmon

  Jobs, Stupid, Overcoming

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• Audiences, as they get smaller, can intensify their relationship with the product, and so can the creative relationship with the people that you are serving. The good news is that, the more shows there are, the less the conglomerates have to gain by breaking the will of each individual creative.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Creative, News

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Given, Shows

  "'Community' Creator Dan Harmon on His Ouster: 'Maybe I am Just a Jerk'" by Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

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• You have people saying two things that seem to contradict each other. One, that we live in a golden age of TV. The other, that television is dying. There's a reason for that. What we mean when we say it's dying is that it's already way past being fragmented into little chunks. Now it's being polarized into an aerosol mist.

  Dan Harmon

  Mean, Past, Two

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy.

  Dan Harmon

  Writing, Years, Energy

  "Dan Harmon Talks HARMONTOWN, Touring, the Writing Process, RICK AND MORTY, COMMUNITY Season 6, and More". Interview with Eva Dickson, collider.com. October 2, 2014.

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• TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie.

  Dan Harmon

  Writing, Vegas, Lucky

  "Dan Harmon Talks HARMONTOWN, Touring, the Writing Process, RICK AND MORTY, COMMUNITY Season 6, and More". Interview with Eva Dickson, collider.com. October 2, 2014.

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• I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Trying, Littles

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• With an animated show you can make a banana purple. You can put three hats on a cowboy. That would require several days of stitching, in live-action, that you wouldn't be able to afford. I mean, you can just do tons and tons and tons.

  Dan Harmon

  Mean, Cowboy, Purple

  Source: collider.com

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