Michael Schur quotes

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)
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. View quote
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If a show ever tries to be cool, then it's going to be doing something wrong. View quote
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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. View quote
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I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy. View quote
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I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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.' View quote
Michael Schur

Michael Schur

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: October 29, 1975
Quotes count: 14