Every single word that's on the screen, I oversee. There's nothing that's shot, I'm not involved in. The scripts go through multiple drafts, and I work with the writers on all these things. And I'm extremely involved in the writing process.

It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That’s the faith you have to have.

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.

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

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

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

Every single word that's on the screen, I oversee. There's nothing that's shot, I'm not involved in. The scripts go through multiple drafts, and I work with the writers on all these things. And I'm extremely involved in the writing process.