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• But you know what, honestly? I'm not that interested in advertising. I think it's a great way... It's such a huge part of our culture. It's like saying, "Are you interested in hair?" It's such a part of our life, and it's such a reflection of how we feel about ourselves, and what we're interested in, and what we want to be.

  Matthew Weiner

  Reflection, Thinking, Culture

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• It's impossible for me, without getting a big wide shot of Manhattan, to convince people that it's another day. But if we go to a commercial and we come up and people are in different clothes, you know it's another day.

  Matthew Weiner

  People, Different, Impossible

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• I have this amazing team that I trust. I completely go with their decisions on things. I don't have to go in and micromanage everything. And I think the other thing is, you start to sort of... I wouldn't say relax, because I've never relaxed. But I've tried to have more confidence in the things I like, or the things other people like. That's really the big thing in this job, to second-guess yourself all the time.

  Matthew Weiner

  Team, Thinking, People

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• The weirdest thing with friends, the way you measure it is if you go without communicating for months at a time, you can sit down and within five seconds be right where you were. I know it's a cliché, but quality not quantity, and that bond will not disintegrate. It does need to be tended to but it won't go away. It's amazing, though - I'm here in New York where my best friend from college lives, and we see each other twice a year and we're right where we were and a lot of it's unspoken.

  Matthew Weiner

  College, Going Away, Quality

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the glory.

  Matthew Weiner

  Thinking, Talent, Sometimes

  Source: www.gq.com

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• 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.

  Matthew Weiner

  Character, Mean, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.

  Matthew Weiner

  Kids, Interesting, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

  Matthew Weiner

  People, Entertainment, Problem

  "Not My Job: 'Mad Men' Creator Matthew Weiner Gets Quizzed On Glad Men". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 28, 2015.

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• My major goal is to take my bathrobe off before the kids get home from school.

  Matthew Weiner

  Home, School, Kids

  "Not My Job: 'Mad Men' Creator Matthew Weiner Gets Quizzed On Glad Men". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 28, 2015.

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• The other thing - and writers can say whatever they want - is casting. You need to find a person who can inhabit that role, who can not sugarcoat the bad stuff, and not be too hard on the good stuff, but who can come across as a three-dimensional human being with some depth and some thought about what they're doing. When you find James Gandolfini or Jon Hamm, someone who can inhabit this role but still has a natural humanity to them, no matter what they're doing? It's a gift.

  Matthew Weiner

  Humanity, Natural

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• I was never really that worried about being a member of the Sopranos crew. I think it looks kind of fun to not have to work, to not have to take crap from anybody. And then there's the reality check in there, which is that you do have to work, you do have to take crap from people, and you can fail, and all these other things.

  Matthew Weiner

  Fun, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Matthew Weiner

  Thinking, Political, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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 work with the writers on all these things. And I'm extremely involved in the writing process.

  Matthew Weiner

  Writing, Multiple, Single Word

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• 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

  Single Person

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