One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

Thanks to the critics and thanks to the Emmys, we got all sorts of great reviews and notices and awards, at the start. Part of it is that it's great fortune to have something to live up to, but as creative people, we all have to just put that aside and go forward, make the best product we can, have as joyous of an experience as we can, and really remember that the spirit of this was to surprise the fans with something that they didn't see coming.

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

Well, at the time, you have to remember that we were not successful. The Showtime offer, as it was presented to me, was half the money for half the show. I was not interested, at that point, in doing a smaller cast and a more simplified Arrested Development.

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.

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.