Mitchell Hurwitz
Mitchell Hurwitz
Mitchell D. "Mitch" Hurwitzis an American television writer, producer, and actor. He is best known as the creator of the television sitcom Arrested Development as well as the co-creator of The Ellen Show, and a contributor to The John Larroquette Show and The Golden Girls...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth29 May 1963
CityAnaheim, CA
CountryUnited States of America
families love
What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that.
applied apply peril trying
There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.
arrested watch
Arrested ... You know what? Let's watch it.
direct laugh lines might otherwise seem seen track waiting
Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as just direct jokes, and make them seem realistic.
came complex eight emerging golden keeps per scenes
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 a show, which was revolutionary. 'Arrested Development' has probably got 60 scenes per show. It just keeps emerging as this more and more complex thing. I always try to keep it very simple at its heart.
confident hardest job nobody paying
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 job wasn't paying very well. But the one thing I did feel confident about was: No one will ever be able to do this again. Because no one would be stupid enough to try.
nice thinking compelling-reason
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.
fun night giving
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.
fun might gains
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.
function form shows
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.
interesting together world
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.
favors stuff chance
Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'
television film possibility
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.
development easy shows
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.