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Quotes by Director

"Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right."
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Woody Allen
"Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right."
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"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
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Woody Allen
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
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"What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters."
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Harmony Korine
"What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters."
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"My brain? That's my second favorite organ."
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Woody Allen
"My brain? That's my second favorite organ."
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"I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics."
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Woody Allen
"I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics."
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"The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired."
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Elaine May
"The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired."
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"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."
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Woody Allen
"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."
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"I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash."
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Bill Forsyth
"I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash."
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"How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans."
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Woody Allen
"How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans."
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"In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it."
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Bill Conti
"In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it."
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"I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it."
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Woody Allen
"I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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Elia Kazan
"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war."
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Robert Greenwald
"Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war."
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"I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100."
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Woody Allen
"I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100."
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"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."
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Woody Allen
"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."
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"I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend."
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Woody Allen
"I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend."
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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."
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Woody Allen
"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."
Job,
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"I'm going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I'll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead."
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Woody Allen
"I'm going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I'll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead."
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"Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine."
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Woody Allen
"Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine."
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"Luck is an art."
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George Roy Hill
"Luck is an art."
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"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."
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Woody Allen
"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."
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"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?"
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Woody Allen
"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?"
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"It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience."
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D. W. Griffith
"It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience."
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"Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived."
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Robert Zemeckis
"Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived."
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"I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people."
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Lloyd Kaufman
"I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people."
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"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
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Jean Cocteau
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."
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Woody Allen
"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."
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Woody Allen
"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."
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"You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans."
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Woody Allen
"You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans."
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"I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak."
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Woody Allen
"I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak."
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"Showing up is 80 percent of life."
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Woody Allen
"Showing up is 80 percent of life."
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"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."
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Woody Allen
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."
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"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable."
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Woody Allen
"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable."
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"Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic."
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Woody Allen
"Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic."
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"Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem."
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Lindsay Anderson
"Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem."
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"I wanted to make people happy, if only for an hour."
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Busby Berkeley
"I wanted to make people happy, if only for an hour."
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"The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death."
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Daniel Petrie
"The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death."
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"I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill."
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D. W. Griffith
"I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill."
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"If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check."
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Woody Allen
"If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check."
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"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."
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Woody Allen
"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."
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"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib."
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Woody Allen
"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib."
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"I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland."
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Woody Allen
"I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland."
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"There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope."
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Woody Allen
"There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope."
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"We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices..."
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Woody Allen
"We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices..."
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"I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes."
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Woody Allen
"I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes."
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."
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Woody Allen
"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."
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"It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to."
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Woody Allen
"It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to."
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"The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths."
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Robert Aldrich
"The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths."
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"The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract."
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Peter Hall
"The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract."
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"If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
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Woody Allen
"If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
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