Mitchell Hurwitz
If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.Collection: People
The "executive producer" title either means that you're the person who created, or co-created, the show, or you're the person who's in charge of day-to-day operations. Whereas "producer" is often just a writing credit.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Sarcastic
Television is so much about continuing to work with people.Collection: People
The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.Collection: Crazy
I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.Collection: 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.Collection: Revenge
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."Collection: Writing
One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Watches
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."Collection: Thinking
The revolution is here. It's established that Netflix is a place where you can get premium content. It's a whole new world. It's very interesting. We'll be discovering it together. It's going to be interesting because they don't have a lot to compare it to.Collection: Interesting
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.Collection: Netflix
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.Collection: Brother
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: New York
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.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Reading
One of the things I liked about bringing this show back was that it gives people something to look forward to. In doing the show, I was very aware that some people will watch it all in one night, but there is enough that it will be fun to re-watch. Hopefully, people will be laughing a lot.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Fun
The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.Collection: Opportunity