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Michael Schur Biography

Michael Herbert Schur is an American television producer, writer, and actor, best known for his work on the NBC comedy series The Office (2005–2013) and Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), the latter of which he co-created along with Greg Daniels. He also co-created the FOX comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–present), and created the NBC comedy series The Good Place (2016–present). Schur had a small role on The Office as Mose Schrute, the cousin of Dwight Schrute.

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

Doors, Kicks, Walking, Open

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

Character, Lows, Shows, Ones, Characters

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

Financially, Motivation, People, Selfish, Things

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.

Amy, Bedroom, Cute, Home, Prayer, Son

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

History, Opinion, Quality, Television

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.

Commit, Ideas, Plan, Plans, Settle, Settling

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, Discussion, School, Tribute, Wild

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. "

Animal, Animals, Class, Forth, Morgan, Running

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.

Cities, Country, Part, People, Thinking

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.

Beer, Jobs, Matters, People, Smart, Voting

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

Email, Emails, Friends, Pure, Texts

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

Decision, Ideas, Press, Right, Sometimes

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. '

Ideas, Like, People, Plan, Tv Shows, Viewer

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.

Thinking, Opposites, Tvs, Liked, Good

I find Billy Eichner to be hilarious, though I also imagine that for many, a little goes a long way. Billy provides a kind of comedy the Parks and Recreations show did not have - an insane person screaming at everyone, and our job going forward, as it is with all of our characters, is to develop him and make him more three dimensional.

Character, Insane, Job, Long, Provides, Show

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.

Crumbling, Different, Hit, Way, Whole, World

My main qualm about TV criticism has been when people review TV the way they review movies. They watch the pilot, and write a definitive review of the show. The obvious analogy is that you don't read the first eight pages of a book and then talk about whether the book works or not. People want so desperately in this day and age to declare something thumbs-up or thumbs-down that they declare it immediately.

Book, Day, Declare, Eight, People, Writing

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.

Education, Fire, Free, Free Education, People, Protection

I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

Behaving, Care, Character, Characters, Stories

I don't know why anybody does anything in the world of television.

Doe, Know, Television, World

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