I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.
I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.
The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.
I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.
Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.
I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.
Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.
If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.
Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men
Sollte die Freiheit zu streben, die uns die Götter in allen Umständen des Lebens gelassen haben, sollte diese ein Mensch dem andern verkümmern können?
I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.
When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus.
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
