Woody Allen

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

When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn’t have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.

Woody Allen

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

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there’s a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.

Woody Allen

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

When you work from city to city or country to country, you work the same way; the working method is the same.

Woody Allen

With me; it’s just a genetic dissatisfaction with everything.

Woody Allen

Writing is great because you never have to meet the test of reality when you’re writing. When I write the film is always a masterpiece at that point. I write and I make up things and budgets don’t mean anything and it’s great.

Woody Allen

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

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen