Dan Schneider
Dan Schneider was born on January 14, 1966, in Memphis, where he received his early schooling at Presbyterian Day School before moving on to Memphis University School and then White Station High School. From Memphis he went on to attend both Yale University and Harvard University, a higher-education path that took him far from his hometown and into some of the country's most selective academic environments.
As a United States citizen working in English, Schneider has taken on a wide range of roles within the entertainment industry. He has worked as an actor — in both film and television — as well as a screenwriter, television producer, film producer, film director, and songwriter. The breadth of those credits means he has operated on both sides of the camera and across multiple formats, contributing as a performer, a writer, and a producer at different points in his career.
The facts available do not include a date of death, and no current city of residence is recorded beyond his Memphis origins. What the record does confirm is that Schneider has accumulated professional credits spanning acting, writing, producing, directing, and songwriting — a combination that places him across several distinct disciplines within American film and television.
Quotes by 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 teach them right from wrong. We're there to provide something that is really fun, that's a diversion.
I think so much of kids' television, kids' entertainment, is done by adults from a looking-back point of view. If we come up with a really great joke that will make me laugh hard and would make my friends laugh, we pitch it aside.
I don't want to wake up at 60 and have to call the neighbor who's 12 to help me with my computer.
That's the goal with TV, to make something that everybody likes and that gets remembered forever.
I realize we're not curing diseases with 'iCarly,' and we're not doing Shakespeare. It's not an Academy Award-winning film, but it has definitely touched people universally.
'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.
I had a great relationship with my parents, but there's something about hanging out with your older sibling that just has a whole new level of cool for a kid.
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.