36 Quotes by Matthew Weiner

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

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    All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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