Matthew Weiner
Matthew Weiner
Matthew Weiner is an American writer, director and producer. He is the creator of the AMC television drama series Mad Men, which premiered in 2007 and ended in 2015. 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. He directed the comedy film Are You Here in 2013, marking his filmmaking debut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth29 June 1965
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.
It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.
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.
Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.
I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten.
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.
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.
It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.
Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.
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.
Success has a lot of things that go along with it and I haven't experienced any personal resentment. I can't control any of that and I try not to worry about it. I hope that's not the case, you know. Most of the writers that I know and artists that I know understand what was going on. I think there's just as many things going on in the awards process that have to do with the show having won a few times.
I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.
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.