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Woody Allen Quotes - Page 24

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I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it's fun to write that. It gives them something to write.

I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and it's fun to write that. It gives them something to write.

Fun, Writing, Years

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

New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.

New York, Home, Thinking

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

I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at one after. I don't like them because there's a big gap between what you conceive in your mind when you're writing and you don't have to meet the test of reality. You're home, you write and it's funny and beautiful and romantic and dramatic, and then you have to show up on a cold morning, and you don't have enough of this and this goes wrong and you make the wrong choice on something and you screwed up and you can't go back.

Beautiful, Morning, Home

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

I never wanted to or expected to make a film outside of New York. New York became very, very expensive. The same $18 million spent in Barcelona or Rome goes much further there.

New York, Rome, Barcelona

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

I do feel it's important to have some kind of faith in something, but [it is] impossible for many of us. I personally don't have any faith in anything, but it's great if you can.

Important, Impossible, Kind

Retirement is a very subjective thing. There are guys I know who retire and they're very happy and they never miss work at all. I can't see myself retiring and fondling a dog every day. I like to get up and work and go out. I have too much energy or too much nervous anxiety or something. So I don't see myself retiring. Maybe I will suddenly get a stroke or a heart attack and I will be forced to retire, but if my health holds out I don't expect to retire.

Dog, Retirement, Heart

"Woody Allen Interview To Rome with Love". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. June 2012.

Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.

Religious, Book, Teaching

CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

My experience creatively is different than my experience in life, for, as my father would say, the simple reason that you can't get hurt when everything goes wrong creatively.

Hurt, Father, Simple

"Woody Allen by Moonlight". Interview with Uzoamaka Maduka, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

There's a tacit agreement between myself and the audience that I will entertain them when they buy their ticket, and I've been the one that has screwed that up. Once in while I indulge myself and try something else, and I keep my fingers crossed that it will come out good and there'll be enough people who will enjoy it, but that doesn't often happen.

Agreement, People, Trying

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

I can make films. And some of them come out good, and some of them come out better, and some of them come out worse. But I've been very lucky over the years to be able to sustain the length of career that I've had.

Years, Careers, Lucky

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

Fall, Winning, Men

Match Point, www.imdb.com. 2005.

Our love, our love will last forever. It's forever but it just doesn't work. That's why it will always be romantic because it can not be complete.

Forever, Our Love, Lasts

I hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm redheaded. I don't tan - I stroke!

Beach, Hate, Sun

Play It Again, Sam (motion picture) (1972)

I never thought I was doing anyone a favour by bringing children into the world. With people as cruel to each other as they are, it's a terrible proposition. The best of lives are sad and tragic. The best of them. My general conclusion is that it's not a nice thing to do. The world doesn't need it. The kid doesn't need it.

Children, Nice, Kids

You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.

Thieves, Citizens, Film

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

Wish, Pianist, Ifs

When I'm not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.

Thinking

I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.

Cancer, Giving, Smoking

This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?

Stars, Years, Black

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Movie, Gambling, Film

"Newsweek", Volume 132, 1998.

My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.

Film, Audience, Has Beens

I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend.

Believe, Weekend, Trying

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Ladders, Showing Up, Enough

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.

Art, Real, Nice

What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now.

Girl, Years, Scandal

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

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