Michael Schur Quotes

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  • In high school, my friend and I discovered that your cable-access station had to let you do whatever you wanted - it was like the Wild West. We made a couple weird things, like a tribute to the Zucker brothers, where we had a panel discussion about the Naked Gun movies. We wrote a script and made jokes that I'm sure were terrible and showed clips of The Naked Gun without permission.

    Brother   Couple   School  
    "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.
  • What's important on a comedy show, or any show, is that some stories have to go somewhere. There have to be ends to the beginnings and middles you create. But sometimes it's like a way station on the highway, then the actual thing doesn't have to be this giant, climactic, life-changing, game-changing thing.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

    Source: www.digitalspy.com
  • My favorite sitcom of all time is 'Cheers.' That's a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got the sense that they didn't like Cliff.

    Cheer   Fun   People  
    Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.
  • I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle affirmation.

    "‘Parks and Recreation’ Mike Schur on the eventful season finale". Interview With Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. April 24, 2014.
  • As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a plan. You can just tell sometimes, 'Oh, there's a plan there. They have an idea for how this is going to unfold.'

    Tv Shows   Ideas   People  
  • Despite the insanity of using whether you would want to have a beer with someone as a legitimate reason for voting for or against them, I always felt that is indicative of a massive problem in politics: It matters as much what your personality is as how smart you are or how good you are at your job. That is a huge, huge problem. A lot of people who are very smart or very good at their jobs are not people I would want to ever have a beer with - but I would want them making massive policy decisions with huge implications for the future of the planet.

    Jobs   Smart   Beer  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

    Nice   Mean   Thinking  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Rule number one for the writers when we committed to the jump was: no hoverboards. No one is allowed to pitch that everyone is on hoverboards. It's going to be very very gently sci-fi.

    "‘Parks and Recreation’ Mike Schur on the eventful season finale". Interview With Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. April 24, 2014.
  • I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

    "Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation's fourth season (Part 5 of 5)". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2012.
  • I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

    Email   Pure  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

    Errors   Trying   Levels  
    Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.
  • I stopped using Twitter for a while just because I got sick of it and I started using it again, but I don't check the "mentions."

    Sick   Checks  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.

    "Michael Schur walks us through Parks And Recreation's third season (Part 1 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2011.
  • The first joke I got on the air I remember clearly. Dennis McNicholas and Robert Carlock wrote a sketch where they were evacuating the Titanic, and the last two guys on the entire ship were the two black guys, Samuel L. Jackson and Tracy Morgan. So Will Ferrell was running back and forth, saying, "All first-class passengers get in the lifeboat. All second-class passengers and third-class passengers get in the lifeboat. Let's get all the animals in the lifeboat. Let's put all the empty luggage in the lifeboat."

    Running   Animal   Air  
    Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.
  • I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

    "Michael Schur walks us through Parks And Recreation's third season". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2011.
  • I hate this phrase, but it's a "can do" attitude [that's important] that, whatever you do in life, you should have.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I am not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram. I only use Twitter, which I wish I didn't.

    Wish   Use   Instagram  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Mockumentary formats are great for a couple of things. One of them is delivering the toughest part of any sitcom episode, what writers call "pipe" - the nuts and bolts of the story where you explain what's happening, the boring plot stuff.

    Couple   Nuts   Plot  
    "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.
  • I think that that the main problem with a lot of social media stuff in terms of ratings is it's a very skewed motivation.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • With mockumentaries, the conceit is that the characters are being interviewed, so you can start a scene and cut to a character looking at the camera and saying, "I'm working on this project," instead of having to figure out ways for people to talk naturally about what they're doing. You see this problem in pilots - people end up explaining things to each other that they'd never explain in real life.

    "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.
  • People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.

    "Michael Schur walks us through Parks And Recreation's third season (Part 1 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2011.
  • Every city, every town, every region in USA has these weird things - the way they pronounce words, or what they call soda, or how people drive. It's a huge country, and there's all these strange pockets of behavioral patterns that social anthropologists could spend lifetimes researching and reporting on.

    Country   Cities   Usa  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Amy Poehler did a really cute thing, [] [her son] said his prayers before he went to sleep that she was going to win [a Golden Globe] and when she got home she put [the trophy] in his bedroom. So when he woke up, he was like “Yes I did it, I did it”. He was so excited, he felt like he had somehow engendered the trophy into existence, which is so cute.

    Cute   Prayer   Sleep  
  • The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

    Character   Lows   Shows  
  • In a weird way, it's not different from any other kind of joke-telling. You make those calculations about jokes about celebrities: is this a fair hit or not? The stakes were higher because the whole world was crumbling around us, but in terms of joke-telling, it's all about feel.

    "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.
  • And personally I will say that Amy Poehler deserves about a thousand trophies and so one is a good start, and I'm hoping this is the first of a thousand. That's my personal hope.

    Trophies   Amy   Firsts  
  • You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

    "Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation's fourth season". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. June 19, 2012.
  • It's all about media culture and people on television, and that feeling comfortable, friendly, or warm toward a candidate [in the elections] is a reason people would emotionally attach themselves to that candidate. I get the mechanics of it, I just hate that it's true.

    Hate   Media   People  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • If the doors aren't open, just kick them in and keep walking.

    Doors   Kicks   Walking  
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