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Woody Allen Quotes - Page 22

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I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play it. It's that simple. If you want to play the guitar, you put a half hour in everyday, but you have to do it.

I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play it. It's that simple. If you want to play the guitar, you put a half hour in everyday, but you have to do it.

Daughter, Fun, Simple

"Woody Allen Interview – Vicky Cristina Barcelona". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2008.

The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'

Love You, Important, Language

Deconstructing Harry, www.imdb.com. 1997.

It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

Gossip, Pornography, Knows

"Manhattan". www.imdb.com. 1979.

There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world.

Different, World, Likes

"Filmmaking Woody Allen's way". Interview, www.stuff.co.nz. June 25, 2012.

Early in life, I was visited by the bluebird of anxiety

Anxiety, Bluebird

I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public quite brilliantly.

Thinking, Wonderful, Filmmaker

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.

Witty, Self Esteem, Humorous

"Fictional character: Isaac". "Manhattan", 1979.

I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons.

Running, Years, Want

Woody Allen (1987). “Three Films of Woody Allen”, Vintage

This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't.

People, Sound, Needs

You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.

Hero, Comedian, Way

"Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The : Interview With Woody Allen". Cinema.com Interview, cinema.com.

Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it. When I'm walking down the street or having dinner, ideas will hit me, and I write them down on matchbooks or napkins and throw them in the draw.

Writing, Kids, Ideas

Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers.

Morning, Differences, Slippers

Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

Art, Cinema, France

God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set.

Cousin, Father, Nice

I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of injustice and overt crime every day in the world, from emotional crimes to international crimes, and it often carries rewards.

Reality, Emotional, Thinking

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Wisdom, Knowledge, Knowing

"Manhattan". www.imdb.com. 1979.

Well, if I don't get at least 16 hours, I'm a basket case.

Hours, Baskets, Cases

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.

Ideas, Long, People

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

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.

Mistake, Moving, Would Be

Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.

People, Important, Complicated

"Woody Allen: "The Whole Thing Is Tragic"". the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

People always tease me. They say, look at you, you went for so much psychoanalysis and you're so neurotic, you wind up marrying a girl so much younger than you.

Girl, Wind, People

"In Conversation: Woody Allen". Interview with Adam Moss, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going out and doing them. As ugly a truth as that is, I do think it's the truth about the world.

Thinking, Going Out, World

"An Interview with Woody Allen". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and when I've finished I go into my room and I have many many records - jazz, classical and popular music. And I have this all at my disposal. I don't have to get a composer.

Fun, Records, Rooms

Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.

Lying, Ideas, Choices

Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again.

Editing, Want, Film

Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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