36 Quotes by Matthew Weiner

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

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

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

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.

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.

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.

Hate is more interesting than love...

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

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?