Mitchell Hurwitz Quotes

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.

When you spend many hours a week working with the same people - I mean television operates on really amazing hours and the gift of that is the trust that you feel and the intimacy that you feel with the people who you're working with.

That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to 'Mary Tyler Moore,' 'Golden Girls,' all those - actors love to take the credit. We couldn't do it without the writers.

Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people.

I care a lot about who I'm working with as directors and other actors.

Professional people build relationships by doing the work together.

All I can say is I am lucky I have never had any misunderstandings with my co-stars.

The assistants, the managers, the PR, the person whose coordinating, the person in production - those are the people I loved communicating with and building network relationships with.

You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.

People keep inviting me back. It's nice to work with the same people when you've had a good time previously, and this is one of those cases.

I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people.

On a personal level, just for me in my own work, I would say the most interesting thing has been getting to work with the people that I've worked with.

I've been blessed to work with some good people as well as different actors. So it's a blessing to be able to have friends who... the friendships are a result of projects that you've worked on together.

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

You're only as good as the people you have around you.

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.

I have a great set of executive producers helping me out. I have a great cast and crew. AMC has been fantastic. I'd say it's everything I was doing before, just eighteen other jobs. I love it.

Just be nice to people and be someone people want to work with because if people don't like working with you it's just not going to work out.