Matthew Weiner
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - MARCH 31: Producer Matthew Weiner (L) and Jaeger-LeCoultre North America President Philippe Bonay attend 'Mad For Reverso' at Jaeger-LeCoultre Boutique on March 31, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Betty, at the end of season two, goes to a bar and winds up sleeping with a random guy. I didn’t disagree with it ... I just wanted to understand the motivation. Is it revenge? And [Matthew Weiner, Mad Men’s head writer and creator] explained to me that I needed to stop thinking. Betty is a sexual person—she gets drunk and she gets laid. That’s it. When it was explained that way, I was like, ‘OK.’ That’s one of the beautiful things about Mad Men; we’re not given any time to think.
You can take risks in television because the audience is smaller
I want people to feel like they’re going to visit their best friend ... And they open the door and everything’s been going on without them, so they’ll have to catch up.More quotes »
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Matthew Weiner talks 'Mad Men's' long-awaited return
Men" creator Matthew Weiner is on the phone from Los Angeles , but he may as well be sitting on a couch three feet away. He is a voluble, passionate interview subject whose words tend to paint a Technicolor portrait of the person doing the talking as much Read more »
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Day-Glo historical moment. But Doc Brown was right: messing with the past can alter the future in unexpected ways. Matthew Weiner and company thrive on this very notion; they’ve remodeled the mid-sixties into an era in which cigarettes don’t cause cancer, from The Paris Review Read more »
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blessing to anyone whose brand is associated with AMC’s high-style depiction of Madison Avenue in the 1960s. (Creator Matthew Weiner’s refusal to allow more product placement in the show was cited as a factor in the long hiatus.) The level of love or loathing from BusinessWeek Read more »
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inherent volatility, melodrama and need to accurately reflect the social zeitgeist may be what initially attracted Matthew Weiner to this business discipline and convinced him to set his tale in the socially convulsive 1960s. He understood an explosive combination from The Huffington Post Read more »
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