I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life and their back stories and all that nonsense, because it never means anything.
Woody AllenAs the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody AllenI do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.
Woody AllenCapital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
Woody AllenOver the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.
Woody AllenI always feel, I guess being a product of the movies of the 40s where movies were the greatest things and screens were big and palaces were palaces and stars were larger than life that reality was so much inferior to what we felt was conceivably possible from what we had seen in the movies.
Woody Allen