Matthew Weiner Quotes

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

  Matthew Weiner

  Hate, Writing, People

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• Hate is more interesting than love.

  Matthew Weiner

  Hate, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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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

  Intellectual, Lessons, Today

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• 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.

  Matthew Weiner

  Drama, Independent, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.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 Weiner

  Men, Years, Mad

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

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• 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.

  Matthew Weiner

  Winter, Imagination, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Matthew Weiner

  Philosophy, Thinking, Personality

  Source: collider.com

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

  Matthew Weiner

  People, Interesting, Trying

  Source: www.gq.com

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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.

  Matthew Weiner

  People, Trying, Selling

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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.

  Matthew Weiner

  Real, Drama, Fall

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

  Matthew Weiner

  Thinking, Drink

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Matthew Weiner

  Thinking, Wish, Energy

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Matthew Weiner

  Artist, Thinking, Awards

  Source: deadline.com

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

  Matthew Weiner

  People, Creative, Supportive

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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?

  Matthew Weiner

  Drama, Identity, Way

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• Opinions can't be inaccurate.

  Matthew Weiner

  Opinion

  Source: collider.com

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

  Matthew Weiner

  Lasts, Entertainment, Shows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Matthew Weiner

  Ambition, Ugly Things, People

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

  Matthew Weiner

  Believe, Turns, Hard

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• 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.

  Matthew Weiner

  Taken, Reality, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  Matthew Weiner

  Believe, Men, Mad

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

  Matthew Weiner

  Miracle, Mind, Stories

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• I know that telling the story, there are certain events I want to skip, and certain events I want to hit. The time passing allows for - if you're really following people's lives, and this isn't a cartoon - someone gets pregnant, a child will be born, etc. You really don't want to be locked into "Every episode is a month later." The show is very intense to make. There's always going to be some downtime between seasons, and to me, it really helps to come back to the next season in the reality of that world, and have almost as much time passed in their lives as has passed in yours.

  Matthew Weiner

  Children, Reality, Cartoon

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• On the set, I visit the set for a lot of the rehearsals, and there's always a writer on set. And then I'm involved in post-production, very intensely involved in editing, and the sound mix and color timing. Really, I have about nine jobs.

  Matthew Weiner

  Timing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Matthew Weiner

  Thinking, Kind, Elegance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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