I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to get out of living where they're living now, because life is a pretty tough proposition and not much fun.… — 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 don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I wouldn't necessarily want to be a big muscular guy. It's nice to be gorgeous whether you're male or female assuming you… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have… — 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
Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive,… — 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
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
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
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
I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
As the author you know how you want it to appear on screen and it's always the content dictating the form. — 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
When I am in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I am in Europe, I want to be… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around. — 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
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
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
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
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
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. — Woody Allen Copy Share
A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone. — Woody Allen Copy Share
There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important. — Woody Allen Copy Share
