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Woody Allen Quotes - Page 28

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That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

Art, Real, Nice

Meanwhile, the minute you put on the dotted line your Sam Hancock - and before a notary - you'll not only get the negative but Elsie makes a wonderful stuffed cabbage which we'll include gratis a few portions but return the jars please.

Funny, Humorous, Negative

Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name

Believe, Names, Religion

Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.

Sex, Dinner, Meals

When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.

Art, People, Humanity

"Woody Allen, The Art of Humor No. 1". Interviewed with Michiko Kakutani, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1995.

My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

Change, Film, Form

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

Failure, Trying, Learning From Mistakes

There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting.

Wall, People, Chinese

Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.

Idols, Childhood, Sunrise

"Woody chooses music over film", www.cnn.com. August 28, 2001.

Then Job fell to his knees and cried to the Lord, "Thine is the kingdom and the power and glory. Thou hast a good job. Don't blow it."

Funny, God, Jobs

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

There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!

Wise, Pain, Suffering

More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man.

Men, Healthy, Despair

Side Effects "My Speech to the Graduates" (1980)

I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)

Baseball, Thinking, Kkk

Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?

Play, Burning, Literature

"Bullets Over Broadway". www.imdb.com. 1994.

You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.

People, Genius, Common

"Bullets Over Broadway". www.imdb.com. 1994.

My Lord, my Lord! What hath Thou done lately?

God, Done, Lord

I love the rain - it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.

Memories, Rain, Sidewalk

Woody Allen, Richard J. Anobile (1977). “Woody Allen's Play it again, Sam”, Not Avail

I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.

Forever, Dying, Want

I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.

Pain, Humor, Thinking

If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe.

Safe, Failing, Now And Then

I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.

Laughter, Fall, Thinking

"'Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker'". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other.

People, Childhood, Different

"Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares.

Thinking, People, Care

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

Real, Kids, Want

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

For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

Home, France, Appreciated

"Woody to open Cannes festival". www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2002.

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