Dan Schneider

I'm very willing to defend creative things that I believe in.

— Dan Schneider

I think the networks used to try to program for kids and family.

— Dan Schneider

Really, I'm just a big kid myself.

— Dan Schneider

We try to cast very real kids who have raw talent.

— Dan Schneider

Publicity ultimately means bigger ratings.

— Dan Schneider

Over the years, I've grown and matured as a producer and leader.

— Dan Schneider

I actually wrote an episode of 'Head Of The Class.'

— Dan Schneider

I don't want to wake up at 60 and have to call the neighbor who's 12 to help me with my computer.

— Dan Schneider

I took a break to take care of a lot of stuff that I'd let go by the wayside for decades.

— Dan Schneider

We work hard to make a good show and it's exciting to be recognized by a third party.

— Dan Schneider

Having been on the other side of the camera gives me such perspective on what I'm doing.

— Dan Schneider

As everyone who works for me knows, I almost never let the girls wear ponytails on my shows.

— Dan Schneider

Casting is what I put at the top of the heap in importance to any show that I do.

— Dan Schneider

By the mid-'80s, I was an actor. I was never super-famous, but I was definitely on the map.

— Dan Schneider

I think my shows can draw an audience of 12 million because I ask, 'What can make a 7-year-old, a 17-year-old, a…

— Dan Schneider

Right when I moved to L.A., I started writing. I wrote some screenplay. I'm sure it's terrible. But I wrote a screenplay…

— Dan Schneider

I'm never going to write fart jokes, because I feel like I have a responsibility to the audience to give them good…

— Dan Schneider

When I was on 'Head of the Class,' 25 million, 30 million people would watch that every night - now a big…

— Dan Schneider

I don't want to be an old man some day and look it up and see some episode of one of the…

— Dan Schneider

By the time I was on TV, I was 19, but I played a kid, and they treated us like kids, so…

— Dan Schneider

My dad would have me watch the shows that he liked. I watched 'I Love Lucy.' I watched 'The Dick Van Dyke…

— Dan Schneider

Even the kids who seem to have a lot of freedom, their lives are pretty controlled. So what I try to do…

— Dan Schneider

“I've said this before: a lot of people think they're artists because they feel things deeply. You know, we're in a culture…

— Dan Schneider

Kids spend seven hours a day in school, and they have their homework at night. I'm not there to moralize or to…

— Dan Schneider

I create a world where kids rule. If you think about it, kids are always being told what to do, what to…

— Dan Schneider

What I loved about TV when I was a kid was that no matter where you came from or who you were…

— Dan Schneider

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…

— Dan Schneider

I was 21 and thinking, 'When this 'Head Of The Class' boat ride ends, I don't want to fade off into the…

— Dan Schneider

Jerry Trainor is one of the funniest people on the planet.

— Dan Schneider

I have a rule: Kids get to be the star.

— Dan Schneider

My shows are meant to be entertaining, not educational.

— Dan Schneider

I try not to cast icky people.

— Dan Schneider

I never interacted with actors in any way, texting or otherwise, that should make anyone uncomfortable.

— Dan Schneider

You don't want to hang out day after day with people you don't want to be with.

— Dan Schneider

I don't think of myself as a guy who writes for kids, I really don't. I try really hard to write a…

— Dan Schneider

Everywhere I go, kids are always, 'I want to be a star, I want to be on TV.'

— Dan Schneider

With people all the way from 17 to 2... 'iCarly' often is the No. 1 show, not just on cable but all of television.

— Dan Schneider

It's fun to intentionally write bad dialogue. It's not so fun when you do it, but didn't mean to.

— Dan Schneider

I try to make a great sitcom that would make my heroes proud of me.

— Dan Schneider

That's the goal with TV, to make something that everybody likes and that gets remembered forever.

— Dan Schneider