A customer who often comes to my restaurant and always enchants me for his simplicity, shyness and self-irony is film director Woody Allen.
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ROMAN COPPOLA Who are you, Woody Allen?
JOY BEHAR My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.
DAVID STEINBERG But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
KATE FLEETWOOD If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.
JULIE DELPY Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.
CATE BLANCHETT I definitely have a little Woody Allen inside of me. That is true.
AUTRE NE VEUT I've been an assistant director for a long time and I guess everyone who comes out of film school ho...
JAMES MCTEIGUE I learned from my first restaurant: Make customers happy, make sure the customer comes back again. A...
NOBU MATSUHISA Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It'...
DAVID LETTERMAN ...I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who d...
ADAM LEVIN My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Wo...
JOHN HUGHES Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's...
MITT ROMNEY I was out of my head. I was really frantic, ... I guess I was always under the misconception that a ...
LIEV SCHREIBER Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's a...
DAVID LETTERMAN An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. T...
ANUPAM KHER The success of a restaurant is made of the details, ... Our job is built from zero everyday. In the ...
ARRIGO CIPRIANI I believe that classic Italian kitchen, that is the old days home cooking, the old times women cooki...
ARRIGO CIPRIANI I'm a huge Bob Hope fan, up until about the late '50s. I've seen so many of his movies u...
SCOTT AUKERMAN Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
T. J. MILLER For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, you...
GENE SAKS It'll be a very Woody Allen kind of film covering three layers of characters: the Indians from India...
HARISH DAYANI Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when no...
GARY OLDMAN I'd love to do more theater in New York City. And I'd love the chance to do a big movie with a great...
ZACH BRAFF When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
SALMAN RUSHDIE [For an actor who was then living in New York, Daniels said, working on a Woody Allen movie was some...
JEFF DANIELS It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON Your principal motive on a movie set is to get the film made, but on a Woody Allen set, there's ...
REBECCA HALL A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They we...
STEPHEN MERCHANT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a wa...
HENRY ROLLINS It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He di...
RADHA MITCHELL I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like ...
EMILY PERKINS Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would r...
NOAH BAUMBACH My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is al...
JOHN ABRAHAM I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movie...
SEAN PENN Barbra Streisand has always been an inspiration for me. I admire Jennifer Lopez because she's be...
LAUREN LONDON If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.
SUSANNE BIER Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlook...
DAVID ZUCKER I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLES Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately nami...
COLIN TREVORROW This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film...
BEN EDWARDS A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good ...
KAJOL The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone ...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen'...
TIM O'BRIEN It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd lov...
BETSY BRANDT I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wante...
CARMEN EJOGO But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Austra...
RADHA MITCHELL For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is on...
BOMAN IRANI After working with Woody Allen, sharing screen space with De Niro was a dream come true.
ANUPAM KHER I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through m...
DANNY ELFMAN The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, do...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON This restaurant has proven itself. This is the only thing my father and I have ever done, and this i...
BRETT MCFARLAND Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-conscio...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.The imaginary relish is so sweetThat it enchants my sense.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favor...
ZOE LISTER-JONES I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have nev...
CHARLIE ROSE I have worked with a lot of really great women directors: Ana Kokkinos; Cate Shortland, who just rec...
DEBORAH MAILMAN The simplicity of my empathy is for my conscience to hurt me equally
IAN IJH HOWELL A self-educated hotelier will manage his hotel, hire better staff, maintain an excellent customer se...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Itali...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH In Griffin, I have a customer who always buys two copies of his favorite books one to read and on...
BILL PHILLIPS There are not many A-list directors who get to make the movies they want to make. I know two: Woody ...
MARTIN LANDAU He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral
YIDDISH PROVERB In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label ...
EMRAAN HASHMI I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's tak...
MARC MARON I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th' imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I becom...
DAVID LYNCH For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a charact...
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. ...
BONG JOON-HO 'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director wh...
MELISSA DE SOUSA Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and st...
MICHAEL O'DONOGHUE In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they...
ETHAN HAWKE The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we'v...
TONY KUSHNER I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to...
SHARON STONE I'm finding that people think it's a choice, for me to have Woody. He's my best buddy, I'm never lon...
DANI ANDERSON Everyone is a lead actor cum director of his own movie called life and any sensible director believe...
ANUJ SOMANY Too often, the ease and enjoyment of restaurant dining is not a reality for individuals with disabil...
WAN KIM I had just arrived in Hollywood and didn't have a manager or agent. A very well known director conta...
CHARLIZE THERON Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversati...
DAN HILL I’ve always wanted to be the sort of boy who does the right thing without having to think about it...
KRIS KIDD It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so w...
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STEPHEN CHOW When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen line...
SANJEEV BHASKAR I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I ...
ZOE MCLELLAN I'm sick of hearing, thinking and talking about Woody Allen. Nonetheless, the allegations agains...
ROXANE GAY Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism...
BRANDO SKYHORSE Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble ...
JUDITH VIORST Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as n...
JUDITH VIORST He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.
YIDDISH PROVERB They're watching, ... Warner has the responsibility as party leader to come up with someone who can ...
LARRY SABATO There is a percentage of kids who don't go on to college for a variety of reasons. And the irony is ...
GINO NALLI For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fa...
EDWARD BURNS People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two senten...
RUSKIN BOND Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk maki...
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