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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
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Mitchell Hurwitz
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 29
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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
Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.
Mitchell Hurwitz
The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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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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.
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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
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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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.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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.
Mitchell Hurwitz
I will tell you that we're all human beings, and we all care about what people think of us. But in general, their outlook is, We're not looking at opening night numbers. We're not looking at opening night box office. We want this to be part of the reason you come to our service.
Mitchell Hurwitz
But, you have to watch them in order. That's very important because, as it turns out, stories have to be told in order. It's like reading a novel. There are times when it's tiring. And then, you get hooked and it's a page-turner, and you really want to keep reading. I do think there will be some fatigue that sets in.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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
It's much easier to say negative things in a review.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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
Netflix will know everything. Netflix will know when a person stops watching it. They have all of their algorithms and will know that this person watched five minutes of a show and then stopped. They can tell by the behavior and the time of day that they are going to come back to it, based on their history.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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
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
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 to stand by that statement.
Mitchell Hurwitz
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!
Mitchell Hurwitz
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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