Words matter. These are the best Megan Ganz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
What I always liked about ‘Sunny’ whenever it approached any sort of hot-button issue is that, ultimately, what the characters felt about it could change at any given instant depending on what benefited them the most personally.
‘Community’ definitely always had a feel of being like college, where it’s like, ‘Let’s band together and stay up all night to do this crazy thing!’
Anytime people engage in something creative or just something they are really passionate about, obviously, it’s hard to separate your personal feelings from what it is you are making.
Once I started writing at ‘The Onion’ I was like, oh this is it, this is my dream job, I’ve achieved my dream job.
Women are not diversity. We’re half the population.
I would love to approach, like, what are the lives of the people that actually play ‘Mythic Quest,’ because you have these devs that are affecting their lives.
Humanity as a concept is neither comic nor tragic.
Any time you give the average person the opportunity to explain themselves on a national scale, they’re always going to sound like a fool.
We need to make sure we’re bringing in diverse voices and not expecting everyone to be a representation of their ethnicity or their age or their gender, but judge them individually and make sure that we’re figuring out who the person is and not just checking a box.
There have always been funny women. But in some ways, it takes a while for there to be women who were watching women on television for years and then grow up and think, ‘I could do funny stuff.’
For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for.
We’re sort of in an age now when we have too much information, which can take us down a specific path. You’re getting too much information too quickly to be able to slow it down and parse it out.
It’s dangerous to think of yourself as a hero and someone else as a villain. It gets in the way of empathy.
In ‘Red Dead Redemption’ they have a thing where if you walk through snow your footsteps stay where you’ve gone. I think that’s just representative of humanity.
They didn’t let us see daylight on ‘Community.’
I’m getting to know the ‘Modern Family’ cast, and they are very sweet. They are very nice and supportive and game for things.
When I was in college I wrote for a newspaper there called the ‘Every Three Weekly,’ which, like a lot of college humor papers, was sort of based on ‘The Onion.’
And what’s nice about ‘Sunny’ is that it has this honesty with the viewers, which is, like, they’re here because they’re on a television show and they’re locked in this purgatory where they have to keep doing the same things with each other.
Women are not different creatures from men. They don’t need to be extra careful around us. They just need to treat us with the same basic respect and dignity that they show to other men.
I don’t think any of my classmates would say I was a class clown.
Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.
You’re trying to write for your idols. It’s strange.
I was groped by a producer at a party a couple years ago, after which I made an anonymous complaint to HR. As far as I know he was never personally disciplined.
Yeah, I started with ‘The Onion,’ that was my first job out of college.
Just keep making comedy. Make it all the time whether it’s your job or not. Consider it like you are already working or in the middle of your career.
I grew up watching ‘I Love Lucy.’
If you find a story that everybody likes and everybody relates to in some way, then you know you have a good story. But if you’re telling a story and all the women are going, ‘I’m checked out of this, I just don’t really care,’ then you’re going to have some problems.
You want to represent it accurately, and the accurate representation of quarantine is not that it’s sad all the time or that people are struggling constantly, it’s that there are these moments of hardship and then there are intense moments of levity and kinship and people supporting each other.
I started reading ‘The Onion’ when I was 13 years old.
‘Community’ was my world for four seasons and my job for three, and has hold of my whole heart like a bad-news high school boyfriend.
When women are seen on TV being crass or funny or making jokes or undercutting someone, then you feel it’s socially acceptable for a woman to do that. More women are growing up feeling, ‘I can speak my mind and say what I want.’
People should see the good that can happen when you aren’t afraid to accept responsibility for your mistakes.
Just because you’re a woman in gaming doesn’t mean you’re a nice person all the time necessarily.
