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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
“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 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
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
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 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
“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
