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
successful development half
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.
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.
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.
amazing forced golden ground learn start unusual
You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.
model people shows work
Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.
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When you don't have a laugh track, you can make the clothes funny. We can make a sign funny. We can make the way somebody walks funny. The makeup can be funny.
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With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.
allowed definitely field further luxury push whatever worry
It's like, if I had the luxury of choice, and didn't have to worry about making a living, I would definitely want to get into whatever field it was that allowed me to push further and further comedically. Because that's the joy of it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
arrested watch
Arrested ... You know what? Let's watch it.
balance calm lunacy
He's so trustworthy and calm and non-judgmental that it really is a balance to the hectic, out-of-control lunacy (of) these people's lives.