One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based. — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do. — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
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… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work. — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Even on the old show, we would maybe not all be in the scene. Sometimes there would be a penthouse scene and… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
When we were making 'Arrested Development,' it was the hardest thing I'd ever done. You know, nobody was watching. We weren't getting… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I think it actually makes more sense for a new audience than the old show did because we're focusing on one character… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that are in the show that harken back to the old show, but I really wanted… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
One of the things I liked about bringing this show back was that it gives people something to look forward to. In… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I've never had a working relationship like I have with them. I developed a lot of the design of this show with… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Well, at the time, you have to remember that we were not successful. The Showtime offer, as it was presented to me,… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
When I was on 'The Golden Girls,' we'd have eight scenes per show. And when 'Seinfeld' came along, they went to, like,… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
We will be looking at things like the confluence of a scene, and we still have all these creative decisions to make.… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
People have outs for numbers of episodes, usually, written into their contract. Some studios will say, "We're going to let Julia Louis-Dreyfus… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
At the time, I used to say, "We should market this like Everybody Loves Raymond. It's just a guy dealing with his… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of the show has always been trying to be surprising, and that was easy to do when nobody… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
One of the best ways into the business is to get a job with a production, which you can do by cold-calling or by… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
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… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
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… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying. — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
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… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
We started writing the shows in order, and then very quickly had to jump to, "Oh, we got Tony Hale today and Jessica [Walter."… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project. — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time. — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
When I was on 'The Golden Girls,' we'd have eight scenes per show. And when 'Seinfeld' came along, they went to, like, 30 scenes… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
When we were making 'Arrested Development,' it was the hardest thing I'd ever done. You know, nobody was watching. We weren't getting feedback. The… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of the show has always been trying to be surprising, and that was easy to do when nobody was watching… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
