Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Heywood "Woody" Allenis an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, playwright and musician, whose career spans more than six decades...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 December 1935
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
thinking body too-much
Better not think too much. Relying more on the body: it is more trustworthy.
nice guy want
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 don't lose whatever else you have.
safe failing now-and-then
If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe.
play burning literature
Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?
money
Money is not everything, but it is better than having one's health.
change film form
My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.
thinking people luck
I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck.
cells years white
[An audience conditioned by a lifetime of television-watching is so corrupted that] their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!
mind body separation
Is there a separation between body and mind, and if so which is it better to have?
thinking
When I'm not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.
thoughtful people tabloids
I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker.
men car doe
When a man is driving in a car and looks out the window and notices a woman with a great body, as he strains to check her face out, how does she know to keep turning so the back of her head is always toward him?
new-york swans ballet
They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.
democracy shut-up dictatorship
The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.