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
witty humorous honey
Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!
sex two religion
Sex and death are two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.
writing expression want
I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.
wise matter no-matter-what
No Matter what you do there will be critics.
funny long eternity
Eternity is really long, especially near the end.
fighting want buying
I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.
things-in-life best-things-in-life best-things
The best things in life are censored.
ideas stories comedy
I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.
humorous names vowels
Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident.
years giving lourdes
I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.
mistake today same-mistakes
I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.
mistake moving looks
If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do that so much better now. Look at all the terrible things I did and all the mistakes and all the compromises and all the blunders I made, and it would be such a terrible experience for me to see them. So it's better that I put it out and move on to the next thing and make it history as quickly as possible.
speak hell prostitution
Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.
mistake simple heuristics
By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.