Mitchell Hurwitz Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

Television is so much about continuing to work with people.

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

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.

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

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.

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

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

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."

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

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.

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.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

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.