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All Quotes by author - Matthew Weiner

" As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down. "

" Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments. "

" I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV. "

" Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested. "

" 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. "

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

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

Creative People

" 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. "

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

" It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not. "

" I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten. "

" My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive, you really care what people think, you have a low threshold for criticism. "

" 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. "

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