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11 quotes by Mitchell Hurwitz

Mitchell D. 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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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... →

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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... →

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When we were making 'Arrested Development,' it was the hardest thing I'd ever done. You know, nobody was watching. We weren't getting... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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.... →

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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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There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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