I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Drama is like meat and three veg. Whereas comedy is like the merangue at the end.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“If I got a paper cut, that’s a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I feel humor is important for those two reasons: that it is a little bit of refreshment like music, and that women… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Some people are funny, and some people are not funny. Many people who are not funny can make a living at it.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
People always ask me, Do you ever think you'll wake up one morning and not be funny? That thought would never occur… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious… — 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
The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It… — 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
The comedies are not a million laughs on the set. Its business and the dramas are business as well, really. When I'm… — 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 films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate… — 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
