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"I've never really understood the hierarchy," says Weiner. "They're very different forms to me. I had been encouraged during the many years to get
'Mad Men' made to turn that into a feature, and I knew that was a television show." For his transition to moviemaking, Weiner, as he says, "cheated a little bit." On the North Carolina shoot, he brought almost his entire "Mad Men" crew, from his cinematographer to his prop master. "You Are Here" is seeking distribution, but meanwhile, Weiner is writing the seventh and final season of "Mad Men." For him, the difference between TV and movies is ultimately about their end points. "It's really about how much resolution it has," he says. "Lots of movies end with a here-we-go-again or a sequel, but a lot of the movies I love
-- especially some of the movies I was sort of trying to emulate here, like
'Five Easy Pieces,' or some of the Billy Wilder movies I love, or a lot of movies about friendship,
'The Last Detail' -- when you try to look at these movies, they drop you off at a very different place than where they started. TV shows can do that, but you really don't want to close any of the knots." "As I'm saying this," Weiner adds, "I'm like, 'Oh, man. I need to end my TV show.' Oh, God, I really have to."
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