Michael Schur Quotes

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• You can't achieve anything entirely by yourself. There's a support system that is a basic requirement of human existence. To be happy and successful on earth, you just have to have people that you rely on.

  Michael Schur

  Successful, Support Systems, People

  "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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

  Michael Schur

  Character, Lows, Shows

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• If the doors aren't open, just kick them in and keep walking.

  Michael Schur

  Doors, Kicks, Walking

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• Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

  Michael Schur

  Ideas, Decision, Sometimes

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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.

  Michael Schur

  Thinking, Opposites, Hips

  "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.

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• 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.

  Michael Schur

  Life Changing, Games, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

  Michael Schur

  Mean, People, Purpose

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.

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• 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.

  Michael Schur

  Strong, Character, Feelings

  "‘Parks and Recreation’ Mike Schur on the eventful season finale". Interview With Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. April 24, 2014.

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• You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

  Michael Schur

  Ideas, Settling, Plans

  Source: deadline.com

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

  Michael Schur

  Thinking, Work Out, Leopards

  "Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation's fourth season". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. June 19, 2012.

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• 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.

  Michael Schur

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Michael Schur

  Different, Crumbling, World

  "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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• 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.

  Michael Schur

  Jobs, Smart, Beer

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Michael Schur

  Hate, Media, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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."

  Michael Schur

  Sick, Checks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Michael Schur

  Cute, Prayer, Sleep

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• 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

  Free Education, Fire, People

  "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.

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• My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal.

  Michael Schur

  Tv Shows, Goal, People

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.

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• One of the worst things you could do in that world is curse at someone.

  Michael Schur

  World, Worst, Curse

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

  Michael Schur

  Email, Pure

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In a world where your interactions with humans are solely about rating one to five, two things happen: One is all humanity is lost in the name of fake pleasantries and also there's no nuance to that system. There's no room for complex interactions that are rich and meaningful.

  Michael Schur

  Meaningful, Names, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Society is completely unreasonable. People want everything and want to pay for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being raised, but if their garbage collection is a day late they scream and yell.

  Michael Schur

  Thinking, People, Panic

  "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.

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• 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.

  Michael Schur

  Motivation, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Topical-sketch writing were incredibly rational and well reasoned: don't do a joke if the subject doesn't deserve it. An ad hominem attack on someone might get you a cheap laugh, but it doesn't earn you any long-term trust. The biggest rule was: you attack whoever's in power. Don't bring your personal bias to the table.

  Michael Schur

  Writing, Long, Laughing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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.

  Michael Schur

  Real, Character, Cutting

  "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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