About Dan Harmon: Dan Harmon is an American writer and performer.
I was raised on NBC television.
When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.
The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.
Maybe I am just a jerk.
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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.
TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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.
There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.
None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forg...
Humankind made these religions; that our brains are capable of doing that is neither something to take too seriously — because we also make poop, and we learned to flush that the fuck down the toilet — but it's also not something to totally disre...
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.
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.
I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.
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.
I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching.
