I don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life… — 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
As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I myself don't like to speak to the actors at all. I like to hire great people and let them do their… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I feel that humor, just like Fred Astaire dance numbers or these lightweight musicals, gives you a little oasis. You are in this horrible world and for an hour and a half you duck into a dark room and it's air-conditioned and the sun is not blinding you and you leave the terror of the universe behind and you are… — Woody Allen Copy Share
For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives. — 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 can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The comedies are not a million laughs on the set. Its business and the dramas are business as well, really. When I'm… — 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 want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do… — Woody Allen Copy Share
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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