Hate is more interesting than love.

- Matthew Weiner

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

- Matthew Weiner

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

- Matthew Weiner

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…

- Matthew Weiner

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…

- Matthew Weiner

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

- 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 …

- Matthew Weiner

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…

- Matthew Weiner

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.

- Matthew Weiner