Death should not be seen as the end but as a very effective way to cut down expenses. — 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
When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There's no way to prove that there is no God. You just have to take it on faith. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
How am I immature? Intellectually, emotionally, and sexually. Yeah, but in what other ways? — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
She had been critical of his new torch song, "A Side Order of Heartache, Please," suggesting it could be used as a… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It's easier to direct. If you direct something poorly and re-shoot it the next day, stage it better, make it work better,… — 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
You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If you pursue the other woman, it's a losing situation and it's not good for your relationship or your marriage. If your… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I… — 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
I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a… — 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've never felt Truth was Beauty. Never. I've always felt that people can't take too much reality. I like being in Ingmar… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If I could change the structure of existence I would do it. I could see a better way to live for everybody. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies. — 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
I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
To me nature is... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating... It's like… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're going to live over again the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose.… — 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
There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a… — 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