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
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
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job. — 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
I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director. — 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 can make films. And some of them come out good, and some of them come out better, and some of them… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical… — 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
My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and… — 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
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
With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it… — 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
I think Hollywood has gone in a disastrous path. It's terrible. The years of cinema that were great were the '30s, '40s,… — 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
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 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
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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 Image
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. — 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 it, and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause! — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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 Image
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
