Quotes by Dan Harmon

Dan Harmon

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.

Illusion

Stuff

Suffering

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.

Creative

News

People

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.

Creative

Pioneers

Use

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

Doe

Hate

Writing

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.

Caring

College

Study Group

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.

Generations

Stories

Thinking

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.

Dvds

Forgiving

Years

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.

Acceptance

People

Technology

I have to be really careful, because I have nothing but love for this entity known as “the customer” in entertainment. I would never, ever, ever put myself above them and say, “They don’t get it, but it’s funny, believe me.” If they’re not laughing, I’m doing my job wrong.

Believe

Believe In Me

Laughing

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.

Jobs

People

Thinking

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Acceptance

Appreciated

Believe

Believe In Me

Caring

Cat

College

Complaining

Cowboy

Crazy

Creative

Defying

Different

Doe

Dog

Done

Dream

Dust

Dvds

Ego

Ends

Forgiveness

Forgiving

Games

Generations

Happened

Hate

Holiday

Home

Humanity

Hurt

Ideas

Illusion

Intention

Jobs

Laughing

Lucky

Mean

Mediums

Morning

News

Normal

Numbers

Once Upon A Time

Parent

Passion

Past

People

Perception

Perfect

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

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Quotes by Dan Harmon

Dan Harmon

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.

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.

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.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

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.

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 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.

I have to be really careful, because I have nothing but love for this entity known as “the customer” in entertainment. I would never, ever, ever put myself above them and say, “They don’t get it, but it’s funny, believe me.” If they’re not laughing, I’m doing my job wrong.

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.

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