Quotes by Matthew Weiner

Matthew Weiner

That’s the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone’s mind.

Mind

Miracle

Stories

The chance to tell personal, language-specific, culturally specific stories is really flourishing on TV and I think it’s just the nature of movies and international demands that you need to get a much bigger audience. TV is more like independent film was. The forms of adult drama and certain kinds of sophisticated comedy, there’s no room for them in the tentpole movie universe.

Drama

Independent

Thinking

The other thing – and writers can say whatever they want – is casting. You need to find a person who can inhabit that role, who can not sugarcoat the bad stuff, and not be too hard on the good stuff, but who can come across as a three-dimensional human being with some depth and some thought about what they’re doing. When you find James Gandolfini or Jon Hamm, someone who can inhabit this role but still has a natural humanity to them, no matter what they’re doing? It’s a gift.

Humanity

Natural

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.

Intellectual

Lessons

Today

The weirdest thing with friends, the way you measure it is if you go without communicating for months at a time, you can sit down and within five seconds be right where you were. I know it’s a cliché, but quality not quantity, and that bond will not disintegrate. It does need to be tended to but it won’t go away. It’s amazing, though – I’m here in New York where my best friend from college lives, and we see each other twice a year and we’re right where we were and a lot of it’s unspoken.

College

Going Away

Quality

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

Hate

People

Writing

Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.

Sometimes

Talent

Thinking

You can do a lot with a commercial break – you can change days, you can suggest the passage of time. So sometimes that’s a great thing artistically, to know that’s going to be there. Obviously you’d always prefer that people see it straight through, and you don’t want them to be taken out of it by advertising, but that’s the reality of what’s paying the bills here.

People

Reality

Taken

You don’t drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

Drink

Thinking

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Believe

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Creative

Culture

Different

Drama

Drink

Elegance

Energy

Entertainment

Fall

Fun

Going Away

Hard

Hate

Home

Humanity

Identity

Imagination

Impossible

Independent

Intellectual

Interesting

Kids

Kind

Lasts

Lessons

Mad

Mean

Men

Mind

Miracle

Multiple

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Needs

Opinion

People

Personality

Philosophy

Political

Problem

Quality

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Quotes by Matthew Weiner

Matthew Weiner

That’s the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone’s mind.

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.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.

You don’t drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

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