Matthew Weiner Quotes

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

All experience is subjective.

I like the saying: "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same - the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds - every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.

Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

Everybody's entitled to their own opinion.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Remember that all is opinion.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

You know, an opinion can be right or wrong.

They can say I have an opinion about something.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

To me, point of view is everything.