Interview with Woody Allen 2000s, Film - 29399

speaking yes okay yeah radio television service yeah you could you can't see anything you have to work here all over the day it's such a pity you can see yeah you can't see nothing I mean it was it's the daily Raphael exhibition and so on do you feel sometimes I would like to get out here and to see something yes yes I will have some time you know they they work too so there's a few hours than a break and a few hours and then then I get a day off and so it's not it's not so horrible as it seems you know but but when you're doing it in the morning it's like one after the other but then then there's a break no I could do it now Leonardo is young and beautiful and and there's a different problem than me I never understood how in their heyday people like the Beatles could exist you know it couldn't walk down the street they couldn't go any place people hiding in their hotel rooms I never had that problem I have a few autographs a few deranged people a few malcontent you know but I don't really have any real serious problem of public affection Express maybe a certain let's say distrust and storytelling because you can tell the story this way or this way which one is the right one maybe your distrust storytelling no I think you can tell a story different ways I've always told them comically because it comes easy to me but but I prefer I would prefer to tell them tragically but it's more difficult I have a hard hard work if you table you know that is the comedy as a driver guy which guy would you be sitting there I am without any question the tragic person I believe life is tragic on the one hand or so horrible that you must make jokes to survive so it's either tragic or very tragic but I don't think it's tragic or funny because I think funny is extra tragic so so I think no matter how you look at life whether you're a person who treats the tragedy head-on or is always light and making jokes they're both frightened of the same thing I think the first time you worry combine two styles yes because I thought it would be interesting to see I just wanted to show that the exact same piece of material the same story could be interpreted or lived out from a comic perspective or from a serious perspective right right I don't want the people to to be sitting there watching the thing I think this character yeah I want them to enjoy the movie and follow the story and then when they they come out they think about it if they think about it then then they can discuss it but but I don't want them to you know I I don't mean it as a psychology lesson and what was the main difference a very simple that one has been crushed by the problems of life and is a tragic victim of life and has been crushed by her own desire for excitement and life and her own desire for something special has brought ruination to her which is a typical tragic figure and the other person has also wanted that but has dealt with it in a comic way and by dealing with in a comic way enables her to survive a little bit better both of them suffer a great deal and the performance by her how she's great she was great that way and I was telling someone before sometimes in the same day we'd start in the morning and shoot some tragic thing and then go to a different part of town and she chewed a comedy thing then back later the tragic thing and and she and I gave her no help I mean you know I didn't give her a wig to put on and make her change or complete you know she was the same you know the same character but she she was able to take on a tragic appearance and then a very charming light appearance you know I was just lucky with the actress I sit and watch yes I hire very talented people and then I watched them and once in a while I have to say can you speak louder going to speak fast you don't have to say something but usually not usually I don't have to say anything at all I hire them and they read the script they understand that they say yes I want to play this I accept it and then they go and do it and they do it and they surprised me and I think chief did I write that it's great you know and and they're really doing there they're bringing their own strong charismatic persona to it I could yes I probably should have been one of the guys at the table I didn't want to distract the audience and you know I thought that people say oh look that there's him he's the the writer of the film our but but I probably should have played one of the people in retrospect it would have been easy for me to play one of the people at the table and I probably should have I would have played the tragic person of course the person I got to play it was great an old friend of mine an actor who's been in many of my movie while he Shawn who's who's great I mean I don't know if I could do it as well and I think certainly this is a very naturalistic film because that's the way women are I mean you could make about every women ten thousand films and ten thousand different persons yeah they're interesting women are interesting they're you know men feel ashamed to let their emotions out much they feel it's important to be strong but women get very emotional and because they do they become very interesting characters in movies and plays because they're all over the place something different no that's good very simple but we'd like to know are you aware of the fact that you are so much part of normal cultural everyday life people say very often oh this is a guy this is a good en family or it's good as a book maybe probably I'm a little aware of it but not not the food not intensely aware but I am I am workers in United States you know I've been around for so long I've made so many films that you know a certain amount of that automatically gets into the culture I'm one of the people of America who has been working for 40 years in the movie so so you think of it but you know I'm glad there's some impact from the films there were some people think about them a little yeah

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Length: 8min 26sec (506 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 30 2017