Quotes by Matthew Weiner

About Matthew Weiner:

Matthew Weiner is an American writer, director and producer. He is the creator of the AMC television drama series Mad Men, the show ended in 2015 with the airing of the series finale "Person to Person". He is also noted for his work on the HBO drama series The Sopranos, on which he served as a writer and producer during the show's fifth and sixth seasons (2004; 2006–2007). He released the comedy film Are You Here in 2013, marking his filmmaking debut.
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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

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

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

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

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

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 guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.

Matthew Weiner

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

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

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

Matthew Weiner

Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.

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

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

Matthew Weiner

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

Matthew Weiner

I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.

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

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

Matthew Weiner

Author Bio

  • NameMatthew Weiner
  • DescriptionAmerican screenwriter
  • BornJune 29, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Television Director; Film Director
  • AwardsWriters Guild Of America Award; Primetime Emmy Award