Mitchell Hurwitz Quotes

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

I just always had a love for television and movies.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it's always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

I feel like there's a lot of great writing on television.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.'

I love television. Television is a great medium; I'm fortunate enough to direct amazing television.

I work on television and I work in film, and the acting is two different things.

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

If you turn on the film, I can play.

We are in this amazing age of television where there's an incredible amount and an incredible quality of television, of long-form narrative.

Luckily Ryan Murphy has a great track record of really having his finger on the pulse of pop culture in a way that very few people do. And he is able to work things into stories in a ridiculously timely way - sometimes, before anybody else thinks it's going to be a thing, he is able to create these moments on television. I was thrilled to get to work with him, and I knew he would be able to tell that story with that same energy.

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

Television's getting better because people are investing more money and time and respect into it. But the secret weapon of television is that, because it's a slow burn, you get to meditate on things and develop them. As opposed to film, where you have an allotted amount of time and hopefully you can wrap it up in there.