Zitat des Tages von Matthew Weiner:
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 guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.
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 is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.
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.
It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.
If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.
If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.
I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.
I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.