Woody Allen Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• People think I'm an artist because my films lose money.

  Woody Allen

  Artist, Thinking, People

• If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Witty, Jobs

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.44, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Reality, Differences

• 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.

  Woody Allen

  Thieves, Citizens, Film

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

  Woody Allen

  People, Film, Institutions

• I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die.

  Woody Allen

  Care, Toilets, Busy

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

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

  Woody Allen

  Art, Cinema, France

• The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes...

  Woody Allen

  Quality, Half, Toilets

  "Woody Allen on Film Funding + Thoughts on Change". BBC Interview, www.youtube.com. 2011.

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

  Woody Allen

  Movie, Gambling, Film

  "Newsweek", Volume 132, 1998.

• 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.

  Woody Allen

  Idols, Childhood, Sunrise

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

• Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And you never have to meet the test of reality when you're writing.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Mean, Reality

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

• 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.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Rome, Barcelona

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

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

  Woody Allen

  Directors, Would Be, Film

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

• 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.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Morning, Home

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

• I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's a good chance that people might enjoy the story. You're surprised pleasantly when they do. It's just luck.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, People, Luck

• I don't think my film style has changed. I'm doing the same kind of jokes I did when I was younger.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Style, Kind

  Cranky Critic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

• I think Hollywood has gone in a disastrous path. It's terrible. The years of cinema that were great were the '30s, '40s, not so much the '50s...but then the foreign films took over and it was a great age of cinema as American directors were influenced by them and that fueled the '50s and '60s and '70s.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Years, Age

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

• I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject.

  Woody Allen

  People, Tragedy, Hollywood

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

• I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.

  Woody Allen

  Emotional, Giving, Goes On

  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.

  Woody Allen

  Hurt, Lucky, Film

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

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

  Woody Allen

  Want, Film

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

• Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so you can indulge the most fantastic, romantic, escapist feelings and fantasies. You can do anything you want. That's why it's very seductive and pleasurable to earn your living making movies because you're not living in the real world.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Seductive, Feelings

  "Woody Allen Talks TO ROME WITH LOVE, the Importance of Music in His Films, How He Feels About Improvisation, and His Outlook on Retirement". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2012.

• I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Years, Magic

• You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.

  Woody Allen

  Drama, People, Interesting

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

• 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.

  Woody Allen

  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.

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