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
war events hostage
In the event of war, I'm a hostage.
mistake moving looks
If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do that so much better now. Look at all the terrible things I did and all the mistakes and all the compromises and all the blunders I made, and it would be such a terrible experience for me to see them. So it's better that I put it out and move on to the next thing and make it history as quickly as possible.
law lobster done
Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.
inspirational funny witty
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
fighting want buying
I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.
school class advice
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
funny humor parenting
I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
witty humorous liberty
The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty.
knowledge rivers drink
Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.
home sitting distraction
I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.
want form knows
As the author you know how you want it to appear on screen and it's always the content dictating the form.
stuff gadgets computer
I don't own a computer. I've never seen anything online at all - nothing. I don't own a word processor. I have none of that stuff. It's not an act of rebellion. I'm just not a gadget person.
funny time inspiration
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
editing style shooting
The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.