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Mitchell Hurwitz Biography

Mitchell D. "Mitch" Hurwitz (born May 29, 1963) is 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.

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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.

Coming, Episodes, Giving, Movie, Numbers, See

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

Bigs, Knows, Nobody, Regret, Secret, Tricky

It's very hard, I think, for critics to write positive reviews, because there's not that much to say about something you like. You can kind of say 'I really like that band' and then if you're forced to fill up the rest of an article, you've got to start saying heady things. It's much easier to say negative things in a review.

Critics, Forced, Negative, Start, Thinking, Writing

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.

Challenges, Jessica, Jump, Order, Write, Writing

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.

Advantage, Material, Netflix, Organism, Scene, Way

I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day.

Became, Brother, Cookie, Father, Growing Up, Stand

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

Away, Chip, Chips, Happens, Identity, Writer

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.

Growing Up, Indicative, Playwright, School, Successful

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

Exciting, People, Television, Watch, Watches

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.

Challenges, Easy, Fun, Make, People, Watching

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.

Character, Doe, Holds, Sarcastic

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.

Comedy, Creative, Decision, Take, Trying

Even on the old show, we would maybe not all be in the scene. Sometimes there would be a penthouse scene and everyone would get together. But, even in that context, it would be because somebody was missing.

Maybe, Missing, Old, Show, Together, Would Be

As somebody who wanted to be creative, growing up, I remember always thinking that the thing I had going against me was Orange County because it seemed like all of the comedy was coming out of New York, and it still is, to a certain extent.

Growing, Growing Up, New York, Seemed, Thing, Thinking

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

Dramaturgy, Fall, Falling, Keeps, Patterns, Too Much

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.

Development, Easy, Future, Shows

I always feel funny when I don't reveal things, especially to you [the press], who have supported us so much and are really the big reason we're here. But, we hold back information about the plot because we want to reward the fans for sticking with us, and that's so much fun. That's the funnest part of it.

Fans, Fun, Funnest, Plot, Supported

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

Conditions, Curiosity, People, Think, Thinking, Two

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.

Compelling, Done, Ideas, Nice, Thinking, Version

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

Chance, Chances, Favors, Like, Prepared, Stuff

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