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 …

- Michael Schur

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

- Michael Schur

Society is completely unreasonable. People want everything and want to pay for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being raised, but …

- Michael Schur

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

- Michael Schur

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

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

- Michael Schur

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 …

- Michael Schur

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, a…

- Michael Schur

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 fi…

- Michael Schur