Michael Schur
Michael Schur
Michael Herbert Schuris an American television producer and writer, best known for his work on the NBC comedy series The Office and Parks and Recreation, the latter of which he co-created along with Greg Daniels. He also co-created the FOX comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Schur is also known for his small role on The Office as Mose Schrute, the cousin of Dwight Schrute...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth29 October 1975
CityAnn Arbor, MI
CountryUnited States of America
Michael Schur quotes about
If a show ever tries to be cool, then it's going to be doing something wrong.
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."
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.
People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.
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.
One of the worst things you could do in that world is curse at someone.
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.
When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at your table read or on the set, it's like the sound of a snap snapping into place.
Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.