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Cinema Quotes by Woody Allen

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Woody Allen likens making a film to a chef in a kitchen, chopping ideas and adding sauces of jokes. He says he keeps the same witty style he used when he was younger, even if critics love a movie that the public skips. He also enjoys the feeling of making someone uncomfortable, because that means his work has impact.

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If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

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

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

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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 do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about…

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I never wanted to or expected to make a film outside of New York. New York became very, very expensive. The same…

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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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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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When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French…

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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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One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a…

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One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not…

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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…

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I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you…

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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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If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do…

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

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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 make films. And some of them come out good, and some of them come out better, and some of them…

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You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable…

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The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical…

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You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for…

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My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and…

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Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.

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.