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.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  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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• 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 getting your résumé out there, and also through contacts. That's where nepotism really helps.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Jobs, Calling, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think of there being two conditions that creative people go through. I think it's fear and curiosity.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Identity, Chips, Happens

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Growing Up, School, Successful

  "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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• Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Favors, Stuff, Chance

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Regret, Secret, Bigs

  "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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• I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Thinking, Creative, Bigs

  "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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• We figured the interesting question for them is, "Where has the family been since 2006, since the last time we saw them?" So, part of the time, we had to spend answering that question. Then, inevitably, it goes up to a point of crisis, in everyone's show. There was just no getting around that it was about 2006-2012.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Interesting, Lasts, Saws

  Source: collider.com

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• The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Form, Function, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's just part of our storytelling.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Order, Maximum Number, Numbers

  Source: collider.com

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• We will be looking at things like the confluence of a scene, and we still have all these creative decisions to make. In general, we're going to just try to make these under a half-hour. We're going to try to take that kind of cable TV comedy model.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Creative, Decision, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• We started writing the shows in order, and then very quickly had to jump to, "Oh, we got Tony Hale today and Jessica [Walter." We've got to jump ahead and write that stuff that's in Jessica's show. Fortunately, we knew the story, but it was challenging.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Writing, Order, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the challenges of the show has always been trying to be surprising, and that was easy to do when nobody was watching it. Now that people have started watching it, they get ahead of us. We've all started really guarding the material, just to make it fun for the audience.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Fun, People, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• There was so much talk about the movie and we thought, "Wouldn't it be great to still do the movie, but to give everybody this thing they didn't see coming?" Even with the number of episodes, it was reported that there was going to be 10 episodes, and then there was talk about adding more.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Numbers, Giving, Episodes

  Source: collider.com

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• I always feel funny when I don't reveal things, especially to you [the press], who have supported us so much and are really the big reason we're here. But, we hold back information about the plot because we want to reward the fans for sticking with us, and that's so much fun. That's the funnest part of it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Fun, Fans, Plot

  Source: collider.com

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• I could vomit, right this moment. I literally could vomit on cue. Yes. Here's the truth of that. We didn't have a big audience, obviously, when we made the show. Very early on, we made a decision that we were going to try to give the fans and the people that were loyal to us something that they felt was special.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  People, Giving, Decision

  Source: collider.com

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• We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Laughing, Stories, Wanted

  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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• 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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• It's much easier to say negative things in a review.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Negative, Easier, Reviews

  "Will Arnett & Mitch Hurwitz ('Arrested Development')". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. February 4, 2011.

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