Mitchell Hurwitz Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Missing, Together, Would Be

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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.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Netflix, Way, Scene

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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.

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  Development, Easy, Shows

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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

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• I've never had a working relationship like I have with them. I developed a lot of the design of this show with them. That conversation was about, "What are your needs? What are you looking for? Will this work for you guys? Will a show work where you've got one episode per character?" They really were a creative partner.

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  Character, Design, Creative

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• People have outs for numbers of episodes, usually, written into their contract. Some studios will say, "We're going to let Julia Louis-Dreyfus off of Veep to do three episodes, but not three episodes of the same show." But, that's all business affairs, so I'm talking over my head here.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Numbers, Talking, People

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• I don't know how that budget would have been worked out, but that was the initial idea. Obviously, we couldn't have had a show with nine expensive actors in it. It was very nice that they were even interested in doing that. But, I was so proud of what we'd done that I couldn't think of a compelling reason to do a lesser version of it.

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  Nice, Thinking, Ideas

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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.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Successful, Development, Half

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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

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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

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• There were a couple times when we started working out the stories - and I was doing this with Jim Vallely and our friend Dean Lorey, who was on the show originally - and we were working on a movie. There would be some fan fiction things that would scoop us. It happened a couple times, where I thought, "Well, we can't do that!"

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  Couple, Work Out, Fans

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• I think that timing is everything. At first, it was too soon. And then, the time was right, but I was busy with other things, and the cast was busy with other things. By the time we sat down to work on the movie, enough time had passed that suddenly a different story emerged.

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  Thinking, Firsts, Enough Time

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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

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• Everybody keeps falling back to the same patterns without doing too much dramaturgy.

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  Fall, Patterns, Too Much

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• I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.

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  Thinking, Ambitious, Want

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• There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

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  Television, Film, Possibility

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• If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.

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  People, Watches, Television

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• The "executive producer" title either means that you're the person who created, or co-created, the show, or you're the person who's in charge of day-to-day operations. Whereas "producer" is often just a writing credit.

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  Writing, Mean, Titles

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• Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.

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  Sarcastic, Character, Doe

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• Television is so much about continuing to work with people.

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  People, Television, Continuing

  "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 TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

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  Crazy, Trying, Actors

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• I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Lying, Magic, Facts

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• 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 all of these sort of classic things.

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  Revenge, Love You, Hatred

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• Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Writing, Needs, Stories

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• One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Character, Stories, Tvs

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