I'm a different writer now. You don't sit in a room with Sopranos creator David Chase and writer Terence Winter for four years and not learn somethin….

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to….

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 ….

Hate is more interesting than love..

As far as casting, I'm there for every single person that's cast. Even if it's one word, I'm there for their auditions..

My life philosophy and personality has been driven by the fact that I am incapable of really understanding the future, on some level. I am in this mo….

Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting..

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 happe….

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

Opinions can't be inaccurate..

I don't want to pretend like I'm clairvoyant or anything, but I had a tremendous sense of malaise about our political future. This is right around th….

I am a competitive person, but it's so hard to do a show. Anybody who gets to the point where they get their show on the air, I wish them the best. I….

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 an….

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

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

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..

Every single word that's on the screen, I oversee. There's nothing that's shot, I'm not involved in. The scripts go through multiple drafts, and I wo….

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, ….

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

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 wor….

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