I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you. — 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 can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking]… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And… — 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
“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