interview with Matt Weiner
Los Angeles Magazine
http://www.lamag.com/featuredarticle.aspx?id=21854
I feel exactly the same inside as I did when I was 18. Is this it?’ And I think that’s where I started with Don, and then Peggy. They’re all parts of me. Pete was definitely a part of me. Peggy is a part of me. … Joan was someone who was originally more of a device and then I met this amazing actress and she became something more significant but there’s a lot of Joan in me too.
I think everybody has a lot of Pete. Pete is completely honest. Pete is the most truthful, unedited person...
...the biggest error I ever made in the show was saying that [Betty] was in a sorority and then saying that she went to Bryn Mawr. And then there’s this weird thing where I think people are upset about the fact that she seems kind of shallow and vain or whatever, and how could she have gone to Bryn Mawr? Impossible, right? I don’t understand that. My father is an academic and he has always introduced people by where they went to college, even in their seventies. I find that there are all kinds of people at every university...
They told me to go inside and watch TV and I went in and watched TV and it was the day of the San Diego plane crash and I sat and watched the TV and saw a torso and a handbag hanging in the tree and had one of my first experiences with irony. …
etc, etc, etc...
http://www.lamag.com/featuredarticle.aspx?id=21854
I feel exactly the same inside as I did when I was 18. Is this it?’ And I think that’s where I started with Don, and then Peggy. They’re all parts of me. Pete was definitely a part of me. Peggy is a part of me. … Joan was someone who was originally more of a device and then I met this amazing actress and she became something more significant but there’s a lot of Joan in me too.
I think everybody has a lot of Pete. Pete is completely honest. Pete is the most truthful, unedited person...
...the biggest error I ever made in the show was saying that [Betty] was in a sorority and then saying that she went to Bryn Mawr. And then there’s this weird thing where I think people are upset about the fact that she seems kind of shallow and vain or whatever, and how could she have gone to Bryn Mawr? Impossible, right? I don’t understand that. My father is an academic and he has always introduced people by where they went to college, even in their seventies. I find that there are all kinds of people at every university...
They told me to go inside and watch TV and I went in and watched TV and it was the day of the San Diego plane crash and I sat and watched the TV and saw a torso and a handbag hanging in the tree and had one of my first experiences with irony. …
etc, etc, etc...