Dan Harmon
Dan Harmon
Dan Harmonis an American writer and producer. Harmon is best known for creating and producing NBC comedy series Community, co-creating Adult Swim animated television series Rick and Morty, and co-founding the alternative television network/website Channel 101. Harmon published You'll Be Perfect When You're Dead in 2013 and is currently working on a second book set for publication in 2016...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth3 January 1973
CountryUnited States of America
I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.
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.
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.
I really like performing for people.
Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day.
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.
I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.
Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.
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.
I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.
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.
'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.
Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.