The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next. Mitchell Hurwitz More Quotes by Mitchell Hurwitz More Quotes From Mitchell Hurwitz 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 storiesfunmight My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something. Mitchell Hurwitz kneesgainswatches One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based. Mitchell Hurwitz tvsstoriescharacter 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 storieswritingneeds Everybody keeps falling back to the same patterns without doing too much dramaturgy. Mitchell Hurwitz patternstoo-muchfall 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. Mitchell Hurwitz ambitiouswantthinking 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. Mitchell Hurwitz possibilityfilmtelevision If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do. Mitchell Hurwitz watchespeopletelevision 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. Mitchell Hurwitz titleswritingmean 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 callingjobsway 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-upsuccessfulschool 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 elementsscenewould-be 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 decisiongivingpeople 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 storieswantedlaughing 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 awardscreativepeople 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 episodesnumbersgiving 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 challengeswritingorder 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 creativedecisiontrying 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 maximum-numbernumbersorder 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 sawslastsinteresting
