Matthew Weiner Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 34 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Matthew Weiner.
Famous Quotes By Matthew Weiner
That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind. — Matthew Weiner
I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships. — Matthew Weiner
Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it? — Matthew Weiner
Super-confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment. — Matthew Weiner
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
Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting. — Matthew Weiner
This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show. — Matthew Weiner
I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women. — Matthew Weiner
My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive, you really care what people think, you have a low threshold for criticism. — Matthew Weiner
I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested. — Matthew Weiner
The most defeatist thing I hear is, "I'm going to give it a couple of years." You can't set a clock for yourself. If you do, you are not a writer. You should want it so badly that you don't have a choice. You have to commit for the long haul. There's no shame in being a starving artist. Get a day job, but don't get too good at it. It will take you away from your writing. — Matthew Weiner
I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show. — Matthew Weiner
If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there. — Matthew Weiner
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
I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do. — Matthew Weiner
I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV. — Matthew Weiner
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
You can't set a clock for yourself. If you do, you are not a writer. — Matthew Weiner
Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments. — Matthew Weiner
I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten. — Matthew Weiner
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
I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I've already been — Matthew Weiner
Opinions can't be inaccurate. — Matthew Weiner
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
It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not. — Matthew Weiner
My major goal is to take my bathrobe off before the kids get home from school. — Matthew Weiner
As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down. — Matthew Weiner
[Peggy Olson]: Just try it. — Matthew Weiner
All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too. — Matthew Weiner
It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves. — Matthew Weiner
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
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