The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.
Michael SchurYou 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 SchurSometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.
Michael SchurI care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.
Michael SchurWith 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