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
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.
I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten.
As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.
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.
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.
I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.
I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.
Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.
Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.
My major goal is to take my bathrobe off before the kids get home from school.
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.