If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I've been lucky because my films have consistently made a profit, almost all of them have made a profit. Never a huge… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I've always been able to… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I don't think my film style has changed. I'm doing the same kind of jokes I did when I was younger. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
People make films for different reasons. For money. Or, they make them because something in them demands artistic expression. I do it… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I never wanted to or expected to make a film outside of New York. New York became very, very expensive. The same… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'd like to make a great movie. I've made many movies. I think I've made some good movies, but I never felt… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“True, science has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the moon, and yet when a man of… — Woody Allen Copy Share
In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate it, and… — Woody Allen Copy Share
I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public… — Woody Allen Copy Share
Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could… — Woody Allen Copy Share
I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't… — Woody Allen Copy Share
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. — Woody Allen Copy Share
A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone. — Woody Allen Copy Share
There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important. — Woody Allen Copy Share
![“I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here [screening room] and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.” quote by Woody Allen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c60/woody-allen-176_cinema_i-never-start-editing-a-film-until-it-s_973537.jpg)
