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 walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like a joke, in case He is in charge.
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.
You have people saying two things that seem to contradict each other. One, that we live in a golden age of TV. The other, that television is dying. There's a reason for that. What we mean when we say it's dying is that it's already way past being fragmented into little chunks. Now it's being polarized into an aerosol mist.
TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
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.
It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.
If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.