Matthew Weiner famous quotes

04-27-2025

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.
-- Matthew Weiner

#Hate #Writing #People
Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.
-- Matthew Weiner

#Interesting #People #Trying
Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.
-- Matthew Weiner

#Thinking #Talent #Sometimes
That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.
-- Matthew Weiner

#Miracle #Mind #Stories
It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.
-- Matthew Weiner

#Ambition #People #Ugly
In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.
-- Matthew Weiner

#Real #Drama #Fall
It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.
-- Matthew Weiner

#Believe #Turns
I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.
-- Matthew Weiner

#People #Creative #Supportive
If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.
-- Matthew Weiner

#People #Trying #Selling
Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?
-- Matthew Weiner

#Drama #Identity #Way
I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.
-- Matthew Weiner

#Lasts #Entertainment #Shows
It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. Thatâ€™s the faith you have to have.
-- Matthew Weiner

#Men #Years #Mad
I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.
-- Matthew Weiner

#Believe #Men #Mad
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to todayâ€™s life.
-- Matthew Weiner

#Intellectual #Lessons #Today

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