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Matthew Weiner quotes

Ocupation: Director

Life: b. June 29, 1965

Birthday: June 29

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

Topics: Hate, Writing, People, Hate Being Alone

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Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

source: - Source: www.gq.com

Topics: 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.

Topics: Thinking, Talent, Sometimes

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

Topics: Miracle, Mind, Stories

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

Topics: Ambition, People, Ugly, Ugly Things

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.

Topics: Real, Drama, Fall, Tropes

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

Topics: Believe, Turns

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

Topics: 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.

Topics: 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?

Topics: Drama, Identity, Way

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

source: - "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Lasts, Entertainment, Shows, Entertainment Business

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.

Topics: Believe, Men, Mad, Trailers, Mad Men

Hate is more interesting than love.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Hate, Interesting

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.

Topics: Intellectual, Lessons, Today

The chance to tell personal, language-specific, culturally specific stories is really flourishing on TV and I think it's just the nature of movies and international demands that you need to get a much bigger audience. TV is more like independent film was. The forms of adult drama and certain kinds of sophisticated comedy, there's no room for them in the tentpole movie universe.

source: - Source: www.esquire.com

Topics: Drama, Independent, Thinking

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.

source: - "Getting There: A Book of Mentors". Book by Gillian Zoe Segal, www.fastcompany.com. April 14, 2015.

Topics: Men, Years, Mad

I'm a different writer now. You don't sit in a room with Sopranos creator David Chase and writer Terence Winter for four years and not learn something. And just watching the way the show was done, and watching the way that David encouraged the imagination.

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Topics: Winter, Imagination, Different

My life philosophy and personality has been driven by the fact that I am incapable of really understanding the future, on some level. I am in this moment. I take risks because I really don't think that far ahead.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Philosophy, Thinking, Personality

I am a competitive person, but it's so hard to do a show. Anybody who gets to the point where they get their show on the air, I wish them the best. It's too hard. I'd rather waste energy thinking good things on myself.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Thinking, Wish, Energy

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Thinking, Drink

Success has a lot of things that go along with it and I haven't experienced any personal resentment. I can't control any of that and I try not to worry about it. I hope that's not the case, you know. Most of the writers that I know and artists that I know understand what was going on. I think there's just as many things going on in the awards process that have to do with the show having won a few times.

source: - Source: deadline.com

Topics: Artist, Thinking, Awards

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Opinion

You can do a lot with a commercial break - you can change days, you can suggest the passage of time. So sometimes that's a great thing artistically, to know that's going to be there. Obviously you'd always prefer that people see it straight through, and you don't want them to be taken out of it by advertising, but that's the reality of what's paying the bills here.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Taken, Reality, People

Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

source: - "Not My Job: 'Mad Men' Creator Matthew Weiner Gets Quizzed On Glad Men". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 28, 2015.

Topics: People, Entertainment, Problem, Great Parenting

I was never really that worried about being a member of the Sopranos crew. I think it looks kind of fun to not have to work, to not have to take crap from anybody. And then there's the reality check in there, which is that you do have to work, you do have to take crap from people, and you can fail, and all these other things.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Fun, Thinking, Reality

I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Enticing

I don't want to pretend like I'm clairvoyant or anything, but I had a tremendous sense of malaise about our political future. This is right around the millennium, right around 1999, when I wrote it. The Sopranos certainly reflected that; when I saw that on the air, I was like "Oh my God, I'm not alone." But it doesn't seem that the culture really caught up with that. George W. Bush won two elections... I'm not even trying to say this from a political standpoint. I think there is a resonance to the kind of glory of that period, and the foreboding of what happened.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Foreboding

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