Woody Quotes - Page 3

• I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Clever, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.

  Reed Mullin

  Thinking, Play, Drumming

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Woody Weatherman showed me two beats, the "do do dat, do do dat" rock beat and the "ooh at ooh at ooh at" punk beat and other than that I was pretty limited. I had just gotten a drum kit for Christmas, which I was stoked about so I was ready to go. Back then, the prerequisite for playing punk rock drums wasn't very high, it was really pretty generic as I'm sure you can imagine.

  Reed Mullin

  Rocks, Two, Imagine

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Bands who had different time signatures etc and for whatever reason, we morphed into Corrosion of Conformity. It's been about thirty years now.

  Reed Mullin

  Years, Play, Purple

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Fun, Character, Guy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen did. They merged principles of comedy and drama together, and that's what my first film really was, a stab at that kind of comedy.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Drama, Together, Principles

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I did a movie with Woody Allen [“Hollywood Ending” in 2002]. I only had a few days with Treat on that film. I immediately liked Treat. Treat and I had a sense of humor about the whole thing.

  George Hamilton

  Hollywood, Sense Of Humor, Film

  "Tanned ambitions: Hamilton reflects on Hollywood career and new film 'The Congressman'". Interview with Eric Althoff, www.washingtontimes.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes, but you're on your heels too, if you know what I mean.

  George Hamilton

  Character, Mean, Want

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class Robert Zimmerman into a pseudo-hobo Woody Guthrie), Dylan put out two acoustic albums that forever changed popular music.

  Jay Michaelson

  Class, Two, Voice

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Woody Allen, when we did Vicky Cristina Barcelona, said to Rebecca Hall, "Do it one time happy, one time sad, and one time indifferent, as I won't know where you should be until I'm editing this, in terms of your emotions."

  Chris Messina

  Emotion, Term, Indifferent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.

  Dee Rees

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Kids, Museums

  "The essential Rosanne Cash". Interview with Bob Gendron, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 16, 2012.

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• I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthrie like Bob Dylan did in the '60s, I just had to make myself be Eileen Myles and let that be my shield.

  Eileen Myles

  Kids, Boston, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease.

  John Mellencamp

  Bars, Use, Ease

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• Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.

  Brett Ratner

  Looks

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• The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin.

  Noah Baumbach

  Real, People, Achievement

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• In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.

  Tobin Bell

  New York, Names, Roles

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• I'm a great fan of Woody Allen's movies.

  Arnaud Desplechin

  Fans, Great Fans

  "INTERVIEW: Soul Searching, or Searching for a Soul; Enigmatic Desplechin Returns with 'Esther Kahn'" by Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2002.

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• Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Wise, Men

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• The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.

  Owen Wilson

  Giving, Sound, Suggestions

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• I'm Jewish, and my family is Jewish. I was very interested in Woody Allen when I was growing up, but I don't think of myself as a Jewish writer. I'm more from suburbia, American suburbia. I'm more from the '70s than I am from Judaism.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Growing Up, Thinking, My Family

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works.

  Letty Aronson

  Directors, Likes, Type

  Source: deadline.com

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• I really feel that a big part of my job - besides getting the money - is to see to it that Woody [Allen] has what he needs to make the film that he has envisioned.

  Letty Aronson

  Jobs, Needs, Film

  Source: deadline.com

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• When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Together, Watches, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

  David Zucker

  Movie, Thinking, Big Fish

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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