Matthew Weiner

I am a competitive person, but it's so hard to do a show. Anybody who gets to the point where they get…

— Matthew Weiner

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way…

— Matthew Weiner

I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a…

— Matthew Weiner

“why should she care about them? didn't both of her parents deserve to be ignored for being exhaustingly needy of her time…

— Matthew Weiner

“despite all the machinery of civilization devoted to splitting up and moving on, Mark couldn't imagine the strength needed to actually do…

— 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…

— Matthew Weiner

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely…

— Matthew Weiner

As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community…

— Matthew Weiner

Every single word that's on the screen, I oversee. There's nothing that's shot, I'm not involved in. The scripts go through multiple…

— Matthew Weiner

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

— 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,…

— Matthew Weiner

As far as casting, I'm there for every single person that's cast. Even if it's one word, I'm there for their auditions.

— Matthew Weiner