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
profound intellectual film
One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.
cutting guy intellectual
Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.
issues people intellectual
It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal with issues. It might be better to just make escapist comedies that don't touch on any issues. The people just get a cool lemonade, and then they go out refreshed, they enjoy themselves, they forget how awful things are and it helps them - it strengthens them to get through the day.
arrogance greatness standing
I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me
knowledge
Is knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know this?
earlier relationship retrospect
Probably in retrospect I should have bowed out of that relationship (with Farrow) much earlier than I did.
everytime hear invading wagner
Everytime I hear Wagner I feel like invading Poland.
bark creation figure god hard poet
As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on
boy cheating freshman looked next sitting soul thrown within year
I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
boy cheating freshman looked next sitting soul thrown within
I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year... for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
catholics mate people pigeons
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics
avoid clear future great holds home seize six trick
It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.
avoid comedy happy love suffering suffers
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
respond tendency
I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.