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 always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director. — 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
I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably. — 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
You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate… — 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
Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I've always been able to… — 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
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… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film - as in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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… — 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
Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten… — 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
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla… — 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 broke up with this girl, and they put me with a psychiatrist who said, 'Why did you get so depressed, and… — 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
As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and… — 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
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
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
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
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
A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything. — 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 think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate… — 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
“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
