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Woody Allen Quotes about Film

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I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

Want, Film

"Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

Names, Nuance, Film

"Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

Censorship, Film, Lit

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

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

People, Film, Institutions

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.

I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here [screening room] and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.

Editing, Way, Film

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

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 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

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

Change, Film, Form

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

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

Profound, Intellectual, Film

If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

Fun, Giving, Film

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

Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard.

Hazards, Sometimes, Film

The audience is making the film and not the film-maker.

Film, Makers, Audience

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

I've been lucky because my films have consistently made a profit, almost all of them have made a profit. Never a huge profit, but nobody gets hurt. And therefore I get a lot of freedom.

Hurt, Lucky, Film

Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

Directors, Would Be, Film

"Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

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