Matthew Weiner, writer for Mad Men and The Sopranos, speaks about the confidence gained by the simple act of creating something independently, even if it’s something no one else will ever see.
Anyway, once I got out of film school I said, they will not let me fly the plane. So I’m going to build my own airport. I shot my first movie, What Do You Do All Day?, in twelve days, in 1995. It cost twelve thousand dollars. Anybody can raise twelve thousand dollars—now it would probably be even cheaper, because there was no digital then.
Even though the movie didn’t go anywhere, Weiner says it still changed his life. He went from feeling frustrated and bitter about having no control over his life to feeling a sense of grandeur. So when his friend asked him to sit in at the writer’s table of a new sitcom and pitch jokes, he had no problem:
And I drove onto the Warner Brothers lot and sat down at the table with all these professional writers and had no trouble talking and telling jokes. Not just because I’m an extrovert, but because I’d just made this movie and I knew it was funny.
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