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
long mind dying
I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.
men long relaxed
I always thought that as long as man is mortal, he will never be relaxed.
long able actors
As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have.
children escaping long
I've been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.
funny long eternity
Eternity is really long, especially near the end.
ideas giving long
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 want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do them for as long as I enjoy the process. And I like the whole process of making a film.
almost came enjoying enjoyment experience films happens invariably rare rarely saw surprised
I like the film, and that's rare for me to say because I make films and I am almost invariably disappointed. When I saw ('Match Point'), I said, 'My God, it came out.' It surprised me. . . . So I am enjoying the experience because it happens so rarely for me.
both fool occurred occurs treated
It's something that occurs to me many times in my movies. They can often be treated comically or dramatically, and I usually opt to treat them comically. But it occurred to me that you could get a story and you could fool around with it both ways.
funny
I'm going to give my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes
advice cast gin improvise learnt
I let the cast improvise a lot, especially with the slang, where they would say 'g and t' for gin and tonic. I wouldn't say that. I would say 'dicey' when they would say 'dodgy.' I learnt a lot.
job
If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job
gained mistakes
I've gained no insight, no mellowing. I would make the same mistakes again.
american-director
I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
damn experience far good love sex
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.