Woody Allen Want Quotations

I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

I wouldn't necessarily want to be a big muscular guy. It's nice to be gorgeous whether you're male or female assuming you don't lose whatever else you have.

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.

All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.

I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.

As the author you know how you want it to appear on screen and it's always the content dictating the form.

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.

People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as bad news and I want everybody to stop sugarcoating it.

One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time.

I don't fear death. - I just don't want to be around when it happens.

I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.

I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.

In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.

I want to return to the womb, anyone's.

I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat.

I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want