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Woody Allen Quotes - Page 29

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I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I

I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an embarrassment of riches. I'll have five ideas and I'm dying to do them all. It takes weeks or months where I agonize and obsess over which to do next. I wish sometimes someone would choose for me. If someone said, Do idea number three next, that would be fine. But I have never had any sense of running dry.

Running, Block, Talking

All the crap they tell you about... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe.

Years, Joy, Golden

The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

Artist, Glasses, Years

Newsweek: Volume 139, 2002.

Death is an acquired trait.

Funny, Death, Humor

Quoted in Eric Lax Woody Allen and His Comedy (1975), ch.11.

The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.

Country, Hero, Comedian

"Woody Allen and Neil Simon Conjure a Compelling Era" by Avery Corman, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 1987.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.

New York, Children, Father

With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have your notes for the scene, which are written with the actors and the camera in mind. The actual script is a necessity for casting and budgeting, but the end product often doesn't bear much resemblance to the script--at least in my case.

Couple, Writing, Mind

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

Weakness, Obsession, Dangerous

No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.

Football, Beer, Games

In order to be successful, all you've got to do is show up 80 percent of the time.

Successful, Order, Shows

I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion.... but it won't get much sleep.

Sleep, Lambs, Lions

You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

Witty, Falling In Love, Children

"Fictional character: Professor Levy". "Crimes and Misdemeanors", www.imdb.com. 1989.

I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.

Witty, Humorous, Ugly

"Play It Again, Sam". www.imdb.com. 1972.

. . . they confuse everything I do with my life.

I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates.

Work, Play, Events

Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison." — "If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists

Eye, Rays, Machines

I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints.

Writing, Mind, Way

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

Crime, Capital Punishment, Mankind

"Love and Death". www.imdb.com. 1975.

Love may be the answer, but even though you're watching for the solution, intercourse raises some rather interesting thoughts.

Interesting, Answers, May

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

Funny, Thinking, Choices

When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

Home, Reality, Differences

I feel that humor, just like Fred Astaire dance numbers or these lightweight musicals, gives you a little oasis. You are in this horrible world and for an hour and a half you duck into a dark room and it's air-conditioned and the sun is not blinding you and you leave the terror of the universe behind and you are completely transported into an escapist situation. The women are beautiful, the men are witty and heroic, nobody has terrible problems and this is a delightful escapist thing, and you leave the theater refreshed.

Beautiful, Witty, Dark

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better.

Wish, Done, Film

Source: film.avclub.com

These were always obsessions of mine, even as a very young child. These were things that interested me as the years went on. My friends were more preoccupied with social issues - issues such as abortion, racial discrimination, and Communism - and those issues just never caught my interest. Of course they mattered to me as a citizen to some degree...but they never really caught my attention artistically.

Children, Abortion, Attention

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Usually, you hire people that you think are wonderful.

Thinking, People, Wonderful

Source: film.avclub.com

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