Michael Schur Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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

  Character, Stories, Care

  "Michael Schur walks us through Parks And Recreation's third season". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2011.

• 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.

  Michael Schur

  Character, Long, Insane

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

• It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.

  Michael Schur

  Writing, Character, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Michael Schur

  Character, Lows, Shows

• 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.

• 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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