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
life-is-short life-is
Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.
successful order shows
In order to be successful, all you've got to do is show up 80 percent of the time.
winning thinking oscars
I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.
home reality typewriters
When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.
fun play looks
If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.
art real nice
That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.
sleep lambs lions
I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion.... but it won't get much sleep.
witty humorous heart
Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.
thinking people care
When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares.
witty humorous bird
I can levitate birds. No one cares.
thinking woods love-and-death
I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.
sex weekend trying
Side Effects Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend. Woody Allen Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
religious communication successful
I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.
wall people chinese
There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting.