Matthew Weiner Quotes

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• That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.
• TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.
• 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…
• Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.
• Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.
• As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.
• I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.
• I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten.
• I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends…
• 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.
• 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,…
• 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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