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Film Quotes by Woody Allen

79 Film quotes by Woody Allen

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Craft matters to him; he admires directors who can shape public reaction with technique. He loves the process of making movies even if audiences stay away, and he enjoys the look of 20‑30 clothing and music. The quotes also point out that critics and the public often disagree about a film’s worth.

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If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

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People think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

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I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

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I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

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My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

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My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

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You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

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The audience is making the film and not the film-maker.

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New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate…

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I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and…

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I've been lucky because my films have consistently made a profit, almost all of them have made a profit. Never a huge…

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Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public…

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It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I've always been able to…

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I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones…

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I think I've gotten technically better over the years but you'd have to be a fool not to. I've made so many…

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There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and…

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The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film - as in…

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Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they…

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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…

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Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so…

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Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I…

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It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films…

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I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten…

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I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people…

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That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla…

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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…

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“I broke up with this girl, and they put me with a psychiatrist who said, 'Why did you get so depressed, and…

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I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use…

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As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and…

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American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

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If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job

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I don't think my film style has changed. I'm doing the same kind of jokes I did when I was younger.

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If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

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The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an…

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People make films for different reasons. For money. Or, they make them because something in them demands artistic expression. I do it…

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You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and…

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A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.

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Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol…

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I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if…

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I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate…

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All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important.

You can't ride two horses with one behind.

Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.