You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.


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DAN HARMON
I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our lo...
DAN HARMON
If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist ...
DAN HARMON
People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi ...
DAN HARMON
I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories w...
DAN HARMON
Maybe I am just a jerk.
DAN HARMON
Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
DAN HARMON
I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I'v...
DAN HARMON
Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decisio...
DAN HARMON
Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing ...
DAN HARMON
There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
DAN HARMON
I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
DAN HARMON
I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critic...
DAN HARMON
I really like performing for people.
DAN HARMON
The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to...
DAN GLICKMAN
I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with ...
DAN GLICKMAN
The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and ...
DAN GLICKMAN
Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
DAN GLICKMAN
Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our i...
DAN GLICKMAN
The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting so...
DAN GLICKMAN
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultiv...
DAN GLICKMAN
Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
DAN GLICKMAN
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect int...
DAN GLICKMAN
I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do i...
DAN GLICKMAN
Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Ever...
DAN GILROY
I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films wh...
DAN GILROY
Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world ...
DAN GILROY
'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses n...
DAN GILROY
I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of...
DAN GILROY
I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the moun...
DAN GILROY
When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using ...
DAN GILROY
We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the f...
DAN GILROY
Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole...
DAN GILROY
News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen,...
DAN GILROY
I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael M...
DAN GILROY
I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up o...
DAN GILROY
All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just ...
DAN GILROY
A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
DAN GILROY
I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work...
DAN GILROY
Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But...
DAN GILROY
There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don'...
DAN GILROY
The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love ...
DAN GILROY