Way Quotes by Woody Allen

Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.

— Woody Allen

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

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.

— Woody Allen

If I could change the structure of existence I would do it. I could see a better way to live for everybody.

— Woody Allen

How am I immature? Intellectually, emotionally, and sexually. Yeah, but in what other ways?

— Woody Allen

I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

— Woody Allen

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

— Woody Allen

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

— Woody Allen

Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh…

— Woody Allen

That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going…

— Woody Allen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a…

— Woody Allen

More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,…

— Woody Allen

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

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

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

As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and…

— Woody Allen

Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain…

— Woody Allen

Death should not be seen as the end but as a very effective way to cut down expenses.

— Woody Allen

Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your…

— Woody Allen

There's no way to prove that there is no God. You just have to take it on faith.

— Woody Allen

When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same.

— Woody Allen

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

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

The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film - as in…

— Woody Allen

She had been critical of his new torch song, "A Side Order of Heartache, Please," suggesting it could be used as a…

— Woody Allen

There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person…

— Woody Allen

I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then…

— Woody Allen

This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I…

— Woody Allen

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

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

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