Dan Harmon

“Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.”

“I was raised on NBC television.”

“I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.”

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

“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.”

“Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.”

“If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.”

“There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.”

“Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.”

“My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.”

“There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.”