Quote

As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have.

Woody Allen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Woody Allen
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 1
Author
Character Actor
Clarinetist
Comedian
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Jazz Musician
Journalist
Musician
Playwright
The Bronx
New York City
Allan Stewart Konigsberg
Allen Stewart Konigsberg
Heywood Allen
Learn
Experience
Able
Long
Improvise
Confident
Rest
Takes
Actors

More quotes by Woody Allen

Image
Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard.
Woody Allen
Image
She had been critical of his new torch song, A Side Order of Heartache, Please, suggesting it could be used as a good way to break in their new paper shredder.
Woody Allen
Image
Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.
Woody Allen
Image
God is either cruel or incompetent.
Woody Allen
Image
Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.
Woody Allen
Image
As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.
Woody Allen
Image
I'm trying to arrange my life so I don't have to be present.
Woody Allen
Image
Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.
Woody Allen
Image
You mellow too much you ripen and rot.
Woody Allen
Image
Life is for the living.
Woody Allen
Image
Money is not everything, but it is better than having one's health.
Woody Allen
Image
Humorists always sit at the children's table.
Woody Allen
Image
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
Woody Allen
Image
A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.
Woody Allen
Image
Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.
Woody Allen
Image
I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.
Woody Allen
Image
Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.
Woody Allen
Image
To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen
Image
I'm a creature of the New York City streets.
Woody Allen
Image
Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.
Woody Allen