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
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 expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.
You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story
When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.
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 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.
I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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.
I say what's in my head, and I'm on honest ground. That is worth so much, and I think it does make my job, as a writer, easier. It makes it possible for me to give people stuff that they like.
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day.
Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
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.