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Dan Harmon
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 3
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Milwaukee City
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Daniel James Harmon
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Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.
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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.
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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.
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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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All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.
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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.
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I love 30 Rock. It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.
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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.
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