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 the millennium, right around 1999, when I wrote it. The Sopranos certainly reflected that; when I saw that on the air, I was like "Oh my God, I'm not alone." But it doesn't seem that the culture really caught up with that. George W. Bush won two elections... I'm not even trying to say this from a political standpoint. I think there is a resonance to the kind of glory of that period, and the foreboding of what happened.
Hate is more interesting than love. - Matthew Weiner
Hate is more interesting than love.
- 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
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…
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
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. - Matthew Weiner
TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.
Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting. - Matthew Weiner
Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.
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
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…
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
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.
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
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 … - 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 …
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