Mitchell Hurwitz Quotes

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• Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Television, Entertainment, Would Be

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

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• It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Thinking, Self, Voice

  "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.

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• The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  People, Next, Curious

  "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Thanks to the critics and thanks to the Emmys, we got all sorts of great reviews and notices and awards, at the start. Part of it is that it's great fortune to have something to live up to, but as creative people, we all have to just put that aside and go forward, make the best product we can, have as joyous of an experience as we can, and really remember that the spirit of this was to surprise the fans with something that they didn't see coming.

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  Awards, People, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• It's very hard, I think, for critics to write positive reviews, because there's not that much to say about something you like. You can kind of say 'I really like that band' and then if you're forced to fill up the rest of an article, you've got to start saying heady things. It's much easier to say negative things in a review.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Writing, Thinking, Negative

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• I joked recently that I thought 30 seconds a day for three years would be the best way to enjoy it, and I'm going to stand by that statement.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Years, Way, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• As somebody who wanted to be creative, growing up, I remember always thinking that the thing I had going against me was Orange County because it seemed like all of the comedy was coming out of New York, and it still is, to a certain extent.

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  New York, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• But, you have to watch them in order. That's very important because, as it turns out, stories have to be told in order. It's like reading a novel. There are times when it's tiring. And then, you get hooked and it's a page-turner, and you really want to keep reading. I do think there will be some fatigue that sets in.

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  Reading, Thinking, Order

  Source: collider.com

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• I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day.

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  Brother, Growing Up, Father

  Source: collider.com

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• Netflix will know everything. Netflix will know when a person stops watching it. They have all of their algorithms and will know that this person watched five minutes of a show and then stopped. They can tell by the behavior and the time of day that they are going to come back to it, based on their history.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Netflix, Algorithms, Behavior

  Source: collider.com

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• The revolution is here. It's established that Netflix is a place where you can get premium content. It's a whole new world. It's very interesting. We'll be discovering it together. It's going to be interesting because they don't have a lot to compare it to.

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  Interesting, Together, Revolution

  Source: collider.com

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• I will tell you that we're all human beings, and we all care about what people think of us. But in general, their outlook is, "We're not looking at opening night numbers. We're not looking at opening night box office. We want this to be part of the reason you come to our service."

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Thinking, Night, Numbers

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the things I liked about bringing this show back was that it gives people something to look forward to. In doing the show, I was very aware that some people will watch it all in one night, but there is enough that it will be fun to re-watch. Hopefully, people will be laughing a lot.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Fun, Night, Laughing

  Source: collider.com

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• They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

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  Writing, Creativity, Dna

  Source: collider.com

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• If you've got a restaurant, you definitely want the line to be out the door the first night, but you're more interested in people continuing to come to the restaurant. And that's their outlook, a little bit. I think it allows for more creativity, in the process. It allows people to make interesting programming that maybe wouldn't have a place on broadcast networks, if you were just counting people.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Creativity, Night, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Even on the old show, we would maybe not all be in the scene. Sometimes there would be a penthouse scene and everyone would get together. But, even in that context, it would be because somebody was missing.

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  Missing, Together, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• I hope to take advantage of the Netflix organism and see if there are ways to get in new material and see if there are ways to do deleted scenes.

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  Netflix, Way, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• There are a lot of things that are in the show that harken back to the old show, but I really wanted to resist doing a greatest hits. It was irresistible to do a greatest hits, but it was almost too easy. There are things that I know are still ahead of us, in the future of whatever Arrested Development brings.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Development, Easy, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

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  Issues, Trying, Violence

  Source: collider.com

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• Well, at the time, you have to remember that we were not successful. The Showtime offer, as it was presented to me, was half the money for half the show. I was not interested, at that point, in doing a smaller cast and a more simplified Arrested Development.

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  Successful, Development, Half

  Source: collider.com

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• At the time, I used to say, "We should market this like Everybody Loves Raymond. It's just a guy dealing with his family." Instead, it was irresistible to show all these funny people. So, I actually think this could be more inviting to a new audience because they can just watch one character, find out what's going on in his life, and then meet another character and find out what's going on in her life, and then see how it intersects the other one.

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  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it actually makes more sense for a new audience than the old show did because we're focusing on one character at a time. It's all conjecture why somebody didn't watch, but one of the theories was that there was just so much information, even in the trailers and promos, of all these different people.

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  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Might, Shows, Backwards

  Source: collider.com

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• There are elements of that, where you'll see a scene again and you'll recognize it, but I wouldn't say it's got one conceit like that, at all. It definitely has those jokes, but it would be wrong to say this is a show where, every time you see it, you see a new angle.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Would Be, Elements, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Fun, Stories, Might

  Source: collider.com

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