Woody Allen: 'It doesn't matter if my movie isn't released in the United States'

[Music] [Applause] [Music] at 83 he's one of America's most prolific directors for over 60 years now his release nearly one film a year including several masterpieces Woody Allen is back with a rainy day New York the story of a young couple visiting the Big Apple for the weekend they face bad weather and a series of adventures along the way I got an interview with Roland Palmer and it's on campus in Manhattan always talking about going into Manhattan for a special region this is gonna be absolutely fantastic carriage ride yeah if it doesn't rain but bad weather isn't the only challenge for this rainy day the movie may never be released in the United States because of allegations of child molestation by Alan's adopted daughter that came back into the spotlight with the meter movement Woody Allen still hopes the European public will be loyal to him his movie opens the Deauville Film Festival here in France Woody Allen Bulger a rainy day in New York is your what 50s 4914 hinds no 48 48 I finished my 49 last week in Spain how do you maintain that rhythm how do you still find the inspiration it's not so hard to do a movie every year is not it sounds harder than it is but it is not that difficult you write it you do it and I have plenty of time doing a movie every year to play with my jazz band to play way to go with my family to go to baseball games basketball games to to take walks I have a lot of leisure time and can still do a movie very comfortably for a rainy day you're back in in Manhattan there are great scenes in iconic places like Central Park like the Met and what does it mean to you shooting in Manhattan well I love to shoot in Manhattan because I love the city and I love living at home when I shoot you know and I shoot in Europe for example I'm living you know in a hotel room for months and it's I don't have my shower I don't have my bed I don't have any of the things that make me comfortable you know and I love to shoot and send I know the city very well I I feel the city I know New York extremely well and so it's it's pleasurable experience so did I then you started opening up to me did is going through this video artistic crisis there's a real story here one of your characters is a successful very established and yet very insecure director are you as anxious as he is when you finish a movie do you have doubts uh almost all the time yes you you whenever you start out with a movie you always think it's going to be the best movie in the world and you film it and every day you look at what you film is it no this is wonderful this is look at the actors and the photography it's so wonderful then you put it together in the editing room and you look at it and it's not so good and then you always feel disappointed and you take it apart and you fix it and you fix it and fix it the months go by and you fiddle with it and finally it's never as good as you had originally conceived it when you when you wrote it have you ever considered quitting retiring like this director does I haven't thought of retiring I mean I don't have to make movies you know if people didn't want to finance my movies I'd be very happy working in the theater or writing books but I like to get up and write I don't I just get up and then do nothing Woody Allen may not be retiring anytime soon but for over a year now he has come under fire from the Miche movement with a resurfacing of allegations made by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow she claims having been molested by him in 1992 when she was seven at the time Woody Allen was separating from actress Mia Farrow to independent acquire ease exonerated him the current backlash has led to actors distancing themselves from the dieter an Amazon breaking it's for movie tears with him I was warned that Alan would not comment on this but I had to give it a try would you like a scoop a rainy day in New York wasn't released in the US your actors aren't here to promote the movie how do you feel about that to me it doesn't matter I think if the movie movies been being released all over the world if if people enjoy the movie I think it will eventually be released in the United States if people come and they say this is boring I hate this movie I don't like it there will be no enthusiasm to lease in the United States but for me I don't it doesn't matter I've already finished another movie this is the rainy day for me is history I made it a year ago now thinking of the next movie you know I put it out and hope you always hope for the best i always hope people will like it if they sometimes they do sometimes they don't but once i finish it the fate of the movie is completely out of my hands but do you fear that you might never work again in hollywood with big studios i mean do i feel no i don't feel i couldn't care less i've never worked in hollywood i always work in new york and it doesn't doesn't matter to me for a second if tomorrow nobody would finance my films and nobody would finance my theater plays or nobody would publish my books i think i still get up and write because that's what I do so I will always work you know what happens to it commercially is another matter you know I've always worked since I was 16 and I continue to work as I said I just finished a movie and you know there's a French actor in it Lewis Carell we got and wonderful actor and you know it's not a fear that I have do you regret having said that you should be the poster boy for the Miche movement no I should be I mean not at all I feel that I've worked with hundreds of actresses not one of them has ever complained about me and not a single complaint I've I've worked with employed women in the top capacities in every capacity for years we've always paid them exactly the equal of men I've done everything that you know that the media movement would love would love to achieve with everybody oh my god you're Francisco Vega is that good or bad if my roommate was here she'd hemorrhage I mean I she thinks you're the greatest thing to come along since the morning-after pill me to the European public and especially the French has always been loyal to you why's that do you think I don't know but I consider myself so fortunate when I first started my first movie fifty years ago take the money and run and then bananas the French public embraced me and in fact Europe and generally in general embraced me Italy and Germany and Sweden and I mean in general and I I never knew but they always like my movies and they always were were loyal and enjoyed them and sometimes the movie might not do well in the United States but it would do well in Europe they there's something about my product and the stuff that I do that in some way unknown to me resonates with European audiences and French audiences they there's they get some enjoyment out of it and as I say I don't question it I love it I consider myself completely lucky that it's happened we didn't thank you thank you thank you so much this is real life for people who can't do any better just one tiny little a lousy our interview it's been the whole weekend I'm onto a real story here take off your way into it I can't I have no clothes underneath [Music]

Channel: FRANCE 24 English

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Keywords: culture, cinema, Woody Allen, Deauville film festival, ENCORE, france24, news

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Length: 10min 16sec (616 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 06 2019