A biography for Dan Schneiderhasn’t been written yet.
“It's fun to intentionally write bad dialogue. It's not so fun when you do it, but didn't mean to.”
“I realize we're not curing diseases with 'iCarly,' and we're not doing Shakespeare. It's not an Academy Award-winning film, but it has definitely touched people universally.”
“I couldn't, and I wouldn't have the long-term friendships and continued loyalty from so many reputable people if I'd mistreated my actors of any age, especially minors.”
“I create a world where kids rule. If you think about it, kids are always being told what to do, what to say, when to do it - they're very controlled... I give them an escape, where the kids are in charge.”
“I think the most important thing I do as head writer of 'Kenan & Kel' and 'All That' is make sure any jokes we do, any situations we approach are from a kid's point of view.”
“Even the kids who seem to have a lot of freedom, their lives are pretty controlled. So what I try to do on my shows is to have kids come out on top. They're the smartest ones in the room. They're the ones in charge.”
“Delegating is something that I don't do as much of as people wish I would.”
“We try to cast very real kids who have raw talent.”
“That's the goal with TV, to make something that everybody likes and that gets remembered forever.”
“Really, when people put together the highlight reels of the classic moments from 'Friends,' 'Seinfeld,' 'Cheers,' even 'MASH,' they're full of broad slapstick comedy. Call it cheap or lowbrow, but it works and it works for people of all ages.”
“By the time I was on TV, I was 19, but I played a kid, and they treated us like kids, so it's almost like I was a kid actor. Basically we were considered props who spoke.”
“I don't want to wake up at 60 and have to call the neighbor who's 12 to help me with my computer.”
“Over the years, I've grown and matured as a producer and leader.”
“When I was a kid, my favorite show was 'Happy Days.' If I could have heard a recording of the cast of Happy Days just sitting around having fun, talking about the show in a party atmosphere, I'd have lost my mind.”
“My friends and family would say I'm in an arrested mental state of development.”
“I try not to cast icky people.”
“Sometime in the early to mid-'90s, 8 P.M. television went away from family to being 'Friends' - and you really don't want your 10-year-old watching 'Friends.'”
“When I was on 'Head of the Class,' 25 million, 30 million people would watch that every night - now a big hit doesn't get a third of that audience.”
“Everywhere I go, kids are always, 'I want to be a star, I want to be on TV.'”