I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody AllenIn 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 AllenThatโs one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thingโs real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejectionโnone of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But itโs not much help to Truffaut.
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