I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.
I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. . . . If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going. '
So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen [You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger], in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised. "
John Logan pretty much does the Woody Allen thing of just bringing people in and meeting them.
I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth. But, one of them was that he doesn't rehearse and another was that he doesn't really direct, if he doesn't like it. . . he cuts it out of the movie, or even replaces you.
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.
It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.
I'm so from the Woody AllenSpike Lee school.
Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.
I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl, or Elmo, or Yogi Bear and Booboo. If we didn't do it, she would scream at us. So, my wife and I would have adult conversations as Yogi Bear and Booboo. It was just a nightmare year.
If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.
I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to be free enough to try to understand what he wants from you. Especially when that director has a tremendous personality. And I'm talking about people like Pedro Almodovar and Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen. And you have to adapt. If you don't adapt to them, you are off the thing.
I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.
I am defined also by Woody Allen's films and Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch and Julian Schnabel or Almodóvar, or by Guillermo del Toro, Iñárritu, Cuarón. Even if we haven't worked with them, we are all defined by their filmography.
I've known Woody Weatherman since fifth grade and I'm 46 so that's a long time man.
My personal favorite is Woody Allen, who is just amazing as a comedian.
I'm a great fan of Woody Allen's movies.
I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
I don't know enough about Woody Allen to be a fan of him.