Matthew Weiner quotes
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“TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.”
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“Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.”
-- Matthew WeinerSource : Source: www.gq.com
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“Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.”
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“That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.”
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“It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.”
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“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.”
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“It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.”
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“I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.”
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“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.”
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“Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?”
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“I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.”
-- Matthew WeinerSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“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. That’s the faith you have to have.”
-- Matthew WeinerSource : "Getting There: A Book of Mentors". Book by Gillian Zoe Segal, www.fastcompany.com. April 14, 2015.
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“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.”
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“The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.”
-- Matthew Weiner
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