"As of Season 3, my relationship with Community’s fans is the longest relationship I’ve ever had. It’s also the most successful, unless you go by ratings or awards.
I think the fans and I work well together because we began our relationship with TV instead of sex, so it always feels like the spark is still there. Also, we can never take each other for granted, because neither of us ever really knows if the other will be there next week.
We cherish every second we have together, which is easy for me, because our fans are the smartest, sweetest, most creative people in the world. They are the people who, in spite of their intelligence, believe, deep down, that humanity doesn’t give itself enough credit.
It was a terrible business decision to write a show for the “smart and nice” demographic. I may as well have written for three-legged unicorns. But this show stopped being about business the moment I saw my first Community fan video on YouTube.
And it wasn’t about business when the fans voted for us to be on the cover of TV Guide Magazine. They’ve been with our show for triumphs and they’ve been there when NBC asked us to cast Hilary Duff, and they’ve decided that the benefits are worth the risks.
That’s love. It’s definitely mutual. Our fans give my life an order and a value that it has never had before, and will never have again.
My therapist will be excited to see this article. I think she knows she can buy that house now." — Dan Harmon, “A Community of Fans” TV Guide Magazine (via brittabuzzkillperry)
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"By not trying to [top it]. By being smaller. More personal, more painful. By being the next thing that should happen to these characters, and not just a rehash of what seemed to work the first time. By having a theme that is completely fresh and organic to itself. I want to know what makes them tick, what makes them flawed, what makes them fight — and ultimately, what makes them awesome. I go to these movies for those moments when the heroes define themselves, either through action or deliciously overwritten speeches." — Joss Whedon on what he would do if he were to direct the sequel to The Avengers (via froghat)
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"I think the reason why twentysomethings are so fixated on age is because we feel a pressure to be a certain way at 23, at 25, at 29. There are all of these invisible deadlines with our careers and with love and drinking and drugs. I can’t do coke at 25. I need to be in a LTR at 27. I can’t vomit from drinking at 26. I just can’t! We feel so much guilt for essentially acting our age and making mistakes. We’re obsessed with this idea of being domesticated and having our shit together. It’s kind of sad actually because I don’t think we ever fully get a chance to enjoy our youth. We’re so concerned about doing things “the right way” that we lose any sense of pleasure in doing things the wrong way. Youth may be truly wasted on the young." — Why Do Twentysomethings Always Feel So Old | Ryan O’Connell (via juneandafter)
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"All I can say is that Scarlett gets to do a lot more than be hot in “Avengers”. It’s definitely dispiriting to have a woman play an heroic role and then be reduced to body parts by fan commentary, but that can only change slowly. And is." — Joss Whedon (via webslinged)
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![While we attempt to catch the eyes of the suddenly invisible wait staff, I ask Reedus about directors he’d like to work with, music he’s digging, and the changes fatherhood has brought to his life.
“It’s changed it in so many ways,” he says, turning pensive. “You’re just not the most important thing anymore and your whole life is altered by that.” His son, Mingus—whose mother is Reedus’ long-time girlfriend, former model and Nylon co-founder Helena Christensen—is now four, and Reedus has been busy spoiling him. “I want him to grow up knowing that he’s the shit,” he says, grinning. “I mean, sometimes he pisses me off. He’ll throw something across the room and keep me up all night, but then he’ll wake me up and say, ‘I love you like the ocean.’ And you get up and do it again. It’s the best thing ever.”[source]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1lyn58vLE1r65huso1_500.png)
While we attempt to catch the eyes of the suddenly invisible wait staff, I ask Reedus about directors he’d like to work with, music he’s digging, and the changes fatherhood has brought to his life.
“It’s changed it in so many ways,” he says, turning pensive. “You’re just not the most important thing anymore and your whole life is altered by that.” His son, Mingus—whose mother is Reedus’ long-time girlfriend, former model and Nylon co-founder Helena Christensen—is now four, and Reedus has been busy spoiling him. “I want him to grow up knowing that he’s the shit,” he says, grinning. “I mean, sometimes he pisses me off. He’ll throw something across the room and keep me up all night, but then he’ll wake me up and say, ‘I love you like the ocean.’ And you get up and do it again. It’s the best thing ever.”
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“I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my path led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears, and the guest of eagles. I am Ring-winner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.”
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Jon Bernthal, to Entertainment Weekly, on visiting the set, post "Better Angels"
- EW: And that was that.
- It’s funny because I promised everybody that I was going to come back and sort of say my final goodbye. And I came into work while they were shooting the next episode and I walked out onto the set and I saw the cast and the crew and everybody was working, and I realized I’m no longer a part of it. And I really didn’t know what to do. This was my show! These are all my friends, my family. And so what I did was I actually went out into the woods and I hid and I watched them shoot for about two-and-a-half-hours, and I was just sitting there. I sound like the biggest weirdo in the world, but I didn’t say goodbye. I couldn’t. I just wanted to watch and spectate. And none of them even knew that I was there, and I just walked back to my car and went home with my dog Boss. But this will always be the greatest job I ever had. I’ve never met people who care about what they do more, and it was just such an honor to be a part of it, and I’m gonna miss them all so much.
![Sara Gilbert: You said something that I though was so honest. I was kinda impressed with your honesty, because sometimes people aren’t so honest with relationships. You said in relation to David ‘sometimes I’m deeply in love with David and head over heels and sometimes I question whether it’s going to work out and is meant to be. So what makes you question it, or do you think that’s normal?
Neil Patrick Harris: Well I said that becausewe were doing an article in the love issue of Out magazine which I thought was great. But I just wanted make sure that that article didn’t paint us as if we were some sort of ‘everthing’s always happy, we’re always in love and everything’s good’ because y’know we’re on year 8 of our relationship, and that’s a long time. When I read that afterwards it sounds like very scandalous y’know like I’m questioning whether we’re even meant to be together, but it’s not like that. Love by design is like that, I feel like [in] a healthy relationship you have to be constantly redefining what that means, because for the first couple of years, things are new and you’re figuring things out and you’re so excited that you complete each other in many ways. But after a length of time you kinda know all about each other and you sort of have to redesign what that notion means to you. And so with that comes moments where you’re not so in love with each other. I think that’s pretty normal, but we’re in a super awesome place now and he’s a great dad and a great guy.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyxu7mlsEV1qesalro1_r1_500.gif)
Sara Gilbert: You said something that I though was so honest. I was kinda impressed with your honesty, because sometimes people aren’t so honest with relationships. You said in relation to David ‘sometimes I’m deeply in love with David and head over heels and sometimes I question whether it’s going to work out and is meant to be. So what makes you question it, or do you think that’s normal?
Neil Patrick Harris: Well I said that becausewe were doing an article in the love issue of Out magazine which I thought was great. But I just wanted make sure that that article didn’t paint us as if we were some sort of ‘everthing’s always happy, we’re always in love and everything’s good’ because y’know we’re on year 8 of our relationship, and that’s a long time. When I read that afterwards it sounds like very scandalous y’know like I’m questioning whether we’re even meant to be together, but it’s not like that. Love by design is like that, I feel like [in] a healthy relationship you have to be constantly redefining what that means, because for the first couple of years, things are new and you’re figuring things out and you’re so excited that you complete each other in many ways. But after a length of time you kinda know all about each other and you sort of have to redesign what that notion means to you. And so with that comes moments where you’re not so in love with each other. I think that’s pretty normal, but we’re in a super awesome place now and he’s a great dad and a great guy.
