It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. — 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. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And… — 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
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
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
My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When I'm writing something, if there's a part that's good for me, then I'll play it. Otherwise, I don't. And I notice… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In certain areas I don't function well and in other areas I function very well. I'm very good professionally. I have good… — 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 I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or… — 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've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“ Chapter 1 . He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“In order to be a writer, "Maugham continues: "one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that… — 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
I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to… — 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
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
What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This… — 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
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
I'll work by myself for years and then I'll think it'll be fun to et one of my friends like Marshall Brickman… — 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