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Woody Allen Quotes

There’s nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way Picture Quote #1

The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that’s everybody’s wish. The fountain of youth is everybody’s sought-after thing Picture Quote #1

Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He’s poetic, but he’s also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it Picture Quote #1

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him Picture Quote #1

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs Picture Quote #1

I’m a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I’m tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I’m like a Sunday tennis player Picture Quote #1

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When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would’ve pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O’Neil or Tennessee Williams Picture Quote #1

And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we’re going to live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I’ll have to sit through the Ice Capades again Picture Quote #1

The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin Picture Quote #1

It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I’ve always been able to steer clear of that and keep the business people out of my hair completely Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don’t want to win anything or lose anything Picture Quote #1

Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do Picture Quote #1

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If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life [than a non-believer] Picture Quote #1

Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality Picture Quote #1

My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting Picture Quote #1

My grammy never gave gifts, you know. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks Picture Quote #1

There’s no way to prove that there is no God. You just have to take it on faith Picture Quote #1

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters Picture Quote #1

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People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom Picture Quote #1

For some reason I’ve always had an irrational love for New York. There’s no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It’s very expensive Picture Quote #1

I’ve always believed that thoughtful people don’t really take the tabloids seriously. They’re basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker Picture Quote #1

When you travel around the country, you see what a tough town New York is: rude, competitive, a town where good, logical ideas are ignored in favor of unworkable ones. And yet, all these other towns are so dead and boring compared to New York Picture Quote #1

One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don’t have to spend massive amounts of screen time Picture Quote #1

When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And I’m presented with costumes and great music to choose from and sets. I travel a certain amount of places, so I’ve been living in a bubble. And I like it Picture Quote #1

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I think it’s my job or the artist’s job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you’re born, you die, you suffer, it’s to no purpose, and you’re gone forever, ever, ever, and that’s it Picture Quote #1

You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you’ve been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando Picture Quote #1

In certain areas I don’t function well and in other areas I function very well. I’m very good professionally. I have good discipline, I’m able to write every day and do films and not go six times over the budget. I mean I’m a coherent person, but I also don’t like to go through tunnels when I travel. I’m claustrophobic Picture Quote #1

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games Picture Quote #1

If you pursue the other woman, it’s a losing situation and it’s not good for your relationship or your marriage. If your marriage is open and you’re allowed to, that’s no good either. There’s no way, really in the end, to be happy unless you get very lucky Picture Quote #1

No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don’t require the whole script I don’t give it to them and no one cares. They’re relieved not to have to read extra pages that they’re not in Picture Quote #1

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There’s nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way (Woody Allen Quotes) The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that’s everybody’s wish. The fountain of youth is everybody’s sought-after thing (Woody Allen Quotes) Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He’s poetic, but he’s also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it (Woody Allen Quotes) I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him (Woody Allen Quotes) I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs (Woody Allen Quotes) I’m a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I’m tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I’m like a Sunday tennis player (Woody Allen Quotes) When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would’ve pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O’Neil or Tennessee Williams (Woody Allen Quotes) And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we’re going to live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I’ll have to sit through the Ice Capades again (Woody Allen Quotes) The real achievement of Woody Allen was that he was making movies that felt very personal, and for a whole group of people, it spoke to them. Then he became an archetype, like Groucho Marx or Chaplin (Woody Allen Quotes) It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I’ve always been able to steer clear of that and keep the business people out of my hair completely (Woody Allen Quotes) I don’t believe in competition for artistic things. I just like the atmosphere of the Cannes festival. I don’t want to win anything or lose anything (Woody Allen Quotes) Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do (Woody Allen Quotes) If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life [than a non-believer] (Woody Allen Quotes) Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality (Woody Allen Quotes) My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting (Woody Allen Quotes) My grammy never gave gifts, you know. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks (Woody Allen Quotes) There’s no way to prove that there is no God. You just have to take it on faith (Woody Allen Quotes) Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters (Woody Allen Quotes) People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom (Woody Allen Quotes) For some reason I’ve always had an irrational love for New York. There’s no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It’s very expensive (Woody Allen Quotes) I’ve always believed that thoughtful people don’t really take the tabloids seriously. They’re basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker (Woody Allen Quotes) When you travel around the country, you see what a tough town New York is: rude, competitive, a town where good, logical ideas are ignored in favor of unworkable ones. And yet, all these other towns are so dead and boring compared to New York (Woody Allen Quotes) One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don’t have to spend massive amounts of screen time (Woody Allen Quotes) When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And I’m presented with costumes and great music to choose from and sets. I travel a certain amount of places, so I’ve been living in a bubble. And I like it (Woody Allen Quotes) I think it’s my job or the artist’s job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you’re born, you die, you suffer, it’s to no purpose, and you’re gone forever, ever, ever, and that’s it (Woody Allen Quotes) You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you’ve been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando (Woody Allen Quotes) In certain areas I don’t function well and in other areas I function very well. I’m very good professionally. I have good discipline, I’m able to write every day and do films and not go six times over the budget. I mean I’m a coherent person, but I also don’t like to go through tunnels when I travel. I’m claustrophobic (Woody Allen Quotes) You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games (Woody Allen Quotes) If you pursue the other woman, it’s a losing situation and it’s not good for your relationship or your marriage. If your marriage is open and you’re allowed to, that’s no good either. There’s no way, really in the end, to be happy unless you get very lucky (Woody Allen Quotes) No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don’t require the whole script I don’t give it to them and no one cares. They’re relieved not to have to read extra pages that they’re not in (Woody Allen Quotes)

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