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
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
Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And… — 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
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 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
We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit! — 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
My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have… — 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 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
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
Once the movie's over, there's not much point. When the thing is edited, mixed, and color-corrected, and you've finished it... In my… — 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
I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious… — 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
In certain areas I don't function well and in other areas I function very well. I'm very good professionally. I have good… — 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 can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea… — 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
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 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
I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on… — 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
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
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
“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
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