Author Archives: Chris

• Isaac: Someone holds the copyright to ‘Happy Birthday’?
• Dan: They’re representatives of Patty and Mildred Hill.
• Isaac: Took two people to write that song?

— From an episode of Sports Night

I have the same reaction whenever a musician is exposed for using ghostwriters.

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.

— Matthew Weiner in an excerpt from Getting There: A Book of Mentors by Gillian Zoe Segal

Previously:
“When I wrote the pilot of Mad Men, I was saying, I’m already successful, why am I not happy?”