Dan Schneider talks about Quiet on Set
Click to view-BooG!e (T-Bo on iCarly), sits down with Dan Schneider to hear his thoughts after watching Quiet on Set.
-“Watching over the past two nights was very difficult. Me facing my past behaviors, some of which are embarrassing and that I regret. I definitely owe some people a pretty strong apology,”
-“When I watched the show, I could see the hurt in some people’s eyes and it made me feel awful and regretful and sorry. I wish I could go back, especially to those earlier years of my career, and bring the growth and the experience that I have now and just do a better job and never, ever feel like it was okay to be an asshole to anyone, ever,”
-In regards to Drake: “When Drake and I talked and he told me about what happened, I was more devastated by that than anything that ever happened to me in my career thus far. And I told him, ‘I’m here for you, She came to me at the time, and she said, ’Dan, I’m not good with words like you are. And would you help me with my speech for the judge? I said, ‘of course.’ I did and he (Peck) ended up going to prison and serving his time'”
-In regards to inappropriate jokes: All those jokes… the show covered over the past two nights, every one of those jokes was written for a kid audience because kids thought they were funny, and only funny,” he argued. But that was then. “Let’s cut those jokes out of the show, just like I would have done 20 years ago or 25 years ago, I want my shows to be popular. I want everyone to like (the shows), the more people who liked the shows, the happier I am. So if there’s anything that needs to be cut because it’s upsetting somebody, let’s cut it.”
-In regards to writers room: “I can tell you why it hurts really bad for me, I was green. I was scared. I was excited. It meant the world to me that I was getting these opportunities. And I went in and I got lucky, because my first couple experiences were fantastic. And the fact that I didn’t pay it forward to every employee that walked through my door, it hurts my heart because I should have and I wish I could go back and fix that.”
-In regards to the On Air Dares: “When I was watching the show over the past two nights, I now know that there were kids who did have problems with the On Air Dares and I breaks my heart and I’m so sorry and I’m so sorry to any kid who ever had to do a dare or anything that they didn’t want to do or weren’t comfortable doing,”
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