After three years of reading youtube comments, I found one that didn’t make me want to puke and kill myself. Some kid, talking to another kid underneath a music video: “first things first buddy, no matter how hard you try i guarantee you wont change the way anyone thinks or acts.” If I could put that thought in everyone’s head on a loop, I could save the world. But, like the kid says, I can’t.
- Dan Harmon [x]
#dan harmon
#quote
"If you are always unhappy, you’re doing it wrong. If people don’t like you, but you wished they liked you, so your solution is to pretend you don’t wish they liked you, or that you don’t like them, you’re doing it wrong. If you hate everything; if you can’t even stop complaining about the things you LIKE, you’re doing it wrong. If you don’t know you’re right until you hear it from someone else, but you think you’re going to change the world, one of those two things has got to give."
#dan harmon
#quote
"I think the most important thing you can know is that you want to be a part of all the other individuals. You don’t want to be alone. There’s a personality disorder for every single thing you can name under the sun. There are people who put entire jars of peanut butter up their butt. There are people who are sexually attracted to cats. But there is no one who wants to be alone."
#dan harmon
#quote
"I can’t find the quote anywhere, but somebody told me a Quentin Tarantino quote, something along the lines of “Audiences are geniuses, and individuals are idiots.” 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. Period."
#dan harmon
#quote
#writing: storytelling
"The answer is always follow your bliss. Always follow your bliss. Find your voice. Shout it from the rooftops. Keep doing it until the people who are looking for you find you. Stay put."
#dan harmon
#quote
#creativity
People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it’s just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
- Dan Harmon [x]
#dan harmon
#quote
#writing: storytelling
Take it easy. Nothing you do matters as much as you think. Your greatest achievements aren’t yours at all, they’re accidents and jokes. You’re a puppet, the universe does the work, and it gets the most done when you’re moving the least. Surrender, flow, relax. Don’t be 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.
- Dan Harmon
#dan harmon
#quote
#artist block
#creativity
"Prove that you blow. Why can’t you finish your screenplay, why can’t you do stand-up, show me why. Because otherwise you will spend 50 years preparing and you are still going to suck your first time, for sure. If you are great your first time then something much larger is wrong."
#dan harmon
#quote
#creativity
#artist block
"When we make things, we’re trying to entertain everyone in the world. We’re not ever ever ever trying to exclude anybody, but the only way you could ever possibly stand a chance of entertaining everybody is if you’re entertaining yourself. Otherwise you’re a hack. You don’t say “well people like Got Milk. That’s a funny joke.” So if you say Got Milk everyone will laugh but you’re not laughing the whole time. It’s garbage. It’s hackery. It works for some people because they get lucky because there’s only so much shit to watch out there. But the truth is if you really want to make people happy you have to know who you are and what you want and express it and make yourself laugh if you’re doing comedy. It’s your tough luck if only 3 million people like it as opposed to 18 million people."
#dan harmon
#quote
#creativity
#artist block
