Woody Allen Quotes - Page 30

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• The movie is usually, for me, something organic that grows all the time. I sit home and write it, and I'm in an isolated, four-walled environment, and I don't know what's going on. I just write it, and it's appearing in my head in some idealized way where every single moment works, and every little thing is perfect, because it's in my head.

  Woody Allen

  Single Mom, Home, Writing

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Air, Luxury

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• Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I find it easier to remember three minutes of dialogue than three hours.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Novelty, Three

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• 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.

  Woody Allen

  Profound, Intellectual, Film

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• I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Children, Kids

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• If I could just hope to have a major talent, then I would rather have it in music than in any other field.

  Woody Allen

  Fields, Talent, Majors

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• I don't rely on anybody except my own judgment. I don't get much input. I don't know if that's helped me or if I would be better off if I did rely on someone.

  Woody Allen

  Would Be, Input, Judgment

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• I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.

  Woody Allen

  Good Luck, Lucky, Way

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• I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want, and make the film. That's why I've always felt the only thing standing between me and greatness, is me. There's no excuse for me not to be great except that I'm not.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Greatness, People

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A" by Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I've always been lucky in casting. The trick in casting is to hire great people, and let them do what they do, don't interfere with them too much. And then when they're great, take credit for it in the end.

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  People, Lucky, Credit

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• I don't believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don't want to win anything or lose anything.

  Woody Allen

  Believe, Winning, Competition

  "Woody Allen Discusses "Match Point"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. December 20, 2005.

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• The process of making films is so technically demanding that it's a distraction. You don't spend your time thinking about the philosophical content, which is often very depressing.

  Woody Allen

  Depressing, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Your audience teaches you how to be funny.

  Woody Allen

  Teach, Audience

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

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• 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.

  Woody Allen

  Children, Escaping, Long

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• Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard.

  Woody Allen

  Hazards, Sometimes, Film

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• When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Men, Cinema

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• When I naturally write a story and I feel that the guy is sitting across the table from the girl and flirting with her... I think, 'God, that can't be me' because I'm just too old for that part. You need a 30-year-old or a 35-year-old for that part. And so I've given myself less and less roles.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  "Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

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• I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Sound, Actors

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". Press conference with Woody Allen, www.moviesonline.ca. June, 2012.

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• Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so you can indulge the most fantastic, romantic, escapist feelings and fantasies. You can do anything you want. That's why it's very seductive and pleasurable to earn your living making movies because you're not living in the real world.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Seductive, Feelings

  "Woody Allen Talks TO ROME WITH LOVE, the Importance of Music in His Films, How He Feels About Improvisation, and His Outlook on Retirement". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2012.

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• I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it was an idea that interested me, I would not hesitate to do it because I enjoy watching these kinds of film.

  Woody Allen

  Ideas, Comedy, Tomorrow

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". Press conference with Woody Allen, www.moviesonline.ca. June, 2012.

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• I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.

  Woody Allen

  Sunday, Player, Tennis

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• You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade after decade.

  Woody Allen

  Meaningful, Years, People

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• You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

  Woody Allen

  Hunting, Encounters, Riches

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• I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life and their back stories and all that nonsense, because it never means anything.

  Woody Allen

  Mean, Stories, Actors

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• Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations.

  Woody Allen

  Creative, Actors, Sometimes

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