Dan Harmon Quotes

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 forgive ourselves and each other for that.

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.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.

There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it is human and all humanity is better than everything inhuman. So I urge you to keep expressing yourself as honestly as you can, and know that the backpedals and second-guesses really aren't necessary - they don't hurt but they're wasting your time - because when you are truly human, as we all are, and when that is your honest message to anyone, you are beyond reproach, there is no way to screw it up.

Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day.

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.

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

You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

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.

There are two kinds of people in this world. There are the people that will have you think that there are two kinds of people in this world, and there are the 'good; people. There is no good, there is no evil, there is just a war going on between the people that want you to think there's a war going on and the people that know there doesn't have to be one.

I'd just love to sit at home, wake up at 10AM, go to my own office with my dog, and write a movie. I don't know if I'm capable of doing that though. I think I'll just end up playing Minecraft and self-destructing.

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 feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

What's important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.

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 am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people 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.

Yoda is interesting because, in addition to being wise, he is two feet tall, and a Yoda.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.

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.