Dan Schneider
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Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Daniel James Schneider
Birthplace Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Birth Date January 14, 1966
Ethnicity Jewish
Overview Ashkenazi
Nationality American
Career Television producer, screenwriter, actor
Color Season Soft Summer
Notes and Motifs
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Schneider: "Over the years, I've grown and matured as a producer and leader."
Schneider: "I don't want to be an old man some day and look it up and see some episode of one of the shows I did and go, 'ugh,' and be disappointed in myself."
Schneider: "Really, I'm just a big kid myself."
Schneider: "My friends and family would say I'm in an arrested mental state of development."
Schneider: "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."
Schneider: "I try to make a great sitcom that would make my heroes proud of me."
Schneider: "I'm very willing to defend creative things that I believe in."
Schneider: "What I loved about TV when I was a kid was that no matter where you came from or who you were - black, white, rich or poor - you knew the same shows. It was a common thing in our culture."
Schneider: "Delegating is something that I don't do as much of as people wish I would."
Schneider: "I'm never going to write fart jokes, because I feel like I have a responsibility to the audience to give them good stuff. I should be able to come up with something funnier than any third-grade boy could think of."
Schneider: "Having been on the other side of the camera gives me such perspective on what I'm doing."
Schneider: "That's the goal with TV, to make something that everybody likes and that gets remembered forever."
Schneider: "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."
Schneider: "Publicity ultimately means bigger ratings."
Schneider: "'iCarly' gives me the luxury of addressing the fans directly. It was a sort of loving nudge to the fans saying, 'We're just a fun little sitcom to make you laugh.' This isn't a heavy-duty soap opera."
Schneider: "We work hard to make a good show and it's exciting to be recognized by a third party."
Schneider: "I never interacted with actors in any way, texting or otherwise, that should make anyone uncomfortable."