The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.
Mitchell HurwitzThere's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.
Mitchell HurwitzOne of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.
Mitchell HurwitzFirst of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's just part of our storytelling.
Mitchell HurwitzI don't know how that budget would have been worked out, but that was the initial idea. Obviously, we couldn't have had a show with nine expensive actors in it. It was very nice that they were even interested in doing that. But, I was so proud of what we'd done that I couldn't think of a compelling reason to do a lesser version of it.
Mitchell Hurwitz