“The chance to tell personal, language-specific, culturally specific stories is really flourishing on TV and I think it's just the nature of movies and international demands that you need to get a much bigger audience. TV is more like independent film was. The forms of adult drama and certain kinds of sophisticated comedy, there's no room for them in the tentpole movie universe.” ThinkingKindFilmUniverseChanceAudienceComedyDramaIndependentSophisticated Author:Matthew Weiner
“I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.” ThinkingKindEleganceEnticing Author:Matthew Weiner
“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.” ThinkingTryingKindPoliticalCultureGloryElectionCaught UpNot AloneSopranosForeboding Author:Matthew Weiner
“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.” PeopleThinkingKindRealityFunFailingWorriedCrapSopranos Author:Matthew Weiner
