Woody Allen - Live Quotes

6 Sourced Quotes

View all Woody Allen Quotes

Allen: That's quite a lovely Jackson Pollock, isn't it?
Woman: Yes, it is.
Allen: What does it say to you?
Woman: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation, forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black, absurd cosmos.
Allen: What are you doing Saturday night?
Woman: Committing suicide.
Allen: What about Friday night?

Woody Allen

Harry: All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.

Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.

Woody Allen

Someone once asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people, and I said I would prefer to live on in my apartment.

Woody Allen

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

Woody Allen

I don't wanna live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.

Woody Allen