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Allan Stewart Konigsberg, dit Woody Allen /ˈwʊdi ˈælən/, est un réalisateur, scénariste, acteur et humoriste américain, né le 1er décembre 1935 à New York. Il est également l'auteur de plusieurs pièces de théâtre et nouvelles, et se produit régulièrement en tant que clarinettiste de jazz.

Réalisant pratiquement un film par an depuis le début des années 1970 au cours desquelles sa popularité a explosé, Woody Allen est l'un des cinéastes américains les plus connus et les plus prolifiques de ces quarante dernières années. Les comédies de mœurs, souvent sur fond de psychanalyse, sont incontestablement son domaine favori bien qu'il s'essaye parfois à d'autres genres. Il se met lui-même en scène comme acteur dans un grand nombre de ses films, incarnant souvent un personnage proche de lui-même, caricature de l'intellectuel juif new-yorkais en proie à des affres tragi-comiques, principalement sexuelles, existentielles et/ou métaphysiques.

Il a obtenu de nombreuses récompenses cinématographiques, dont quatre Oscars en tant que meilleur réalisateur et meilleur scénario original, catégorie pour laquelle il détient le record de victoires et, de très loin, de nominations . Wikipedia  

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“Tant que l'homme sera mortel, il ne pourra pas être vraiment décontracté.”

Variante: Tant que l'homme sera mortel, il ne sera jamais décontracté.

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Woody Allen: Citations en anglais

“Political questions, if you go back thousands of years, are ephemeral, not important. History is the same thing over and over again.”

Interview in Der Spiegel, 2005-06-20 (as quoted by the New York Post) http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-06-29/
Contexte: As a filmmaker, I'm not interested in 9/11 [... ] it's too small, history overwhelms it. The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other. Political questions, if you go back thousands of years, are ephemeral, not important. History is the same thing over and over again.

“I have no apprehension whatsoever. I've been through this so many times.”

September 2007 interview, promoting Cassandra's Dreams http://www.film.com/play/cassandrasdreamwoodyalleninterview/16265462.
Contexte: I have no apprehension whatsoever. I've been through this so many times. And I found that one way or the other, your life doesn't change at all. Which is sad, in a way. Because the people love your film... nothing great happens. And people hate your film... nothing terrible happens. Many years ago, I would... I would... a film of mine would open, and it would get great reviews, and I would go down and look at the movie theater. There'd be a line around the block. And when a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares. They're not interested. They've got their own lives, and their own problems, and their own shadows on their lungs, and their x-rays. And, you know, they've got their own stuff they're dealing with.... So, I'm just never nervous about it.

“Showing up is 80 percent of life.”

Attributed
Contexte: I have learned one thing. As Woody says, "Showing up is 80 percent of life." Sometimes it’s easier to hide home in bed. I’ve done both. - 1977 August 21, New York Times, Section 2: Arts and Leisure, He’s Woody Allen’s Not-So-Silent Partner by Susan Braudy, Page 11 (ProQuest Page 83), New York.

“They're not interested. They've got their own lives, and their own problems, and their own shadows on their lungs, and their x-rays. And, you know, they've got their own stuff they're dealing with…. So, I'm just never nervous about it.”

September 2007 interview, promoting Cassandra's Dreams http://www.film.com/play/cassandrasdreamwoodyalleninterview/16265462.
Contexte: I have no apprehension whatsoever. I've been through this so many times. And I found that one way or the other, your life doesn't change at all. Which is sad, in a way. Because the people love your film... nothing great happens. And people hate your film... nothing terrible happens. Many years ago, I would... I would... a film of mine would open, and it would get great reviews, and I would go down and look at the movie theater. There'd be a line around the block. And when a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares. They're not interested. They've got their own lives, and their own problems, and their own shadows on their lungs, and their x-rays. And, you know, they've got their own stuff they're dealing with.... So, I'm just never nervous about it.

“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

"Selections from the Allen Notebooks".
Without Feathers (1975)

“On bisexuality: It immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.”

The earliest source located is here http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=bisexuality#search_anchor, in the sidebar "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor which appeared alongside the New York Times article "Everything You Wanted to Know About Woody Allen at 40" by Mel Gussow, 1 December 1975, page 33. Full text also available in Lakeland Ledger, 25 December 1975 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pUdNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4foDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6578%2C6650273 on google news.
Unsourced variant: "Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night."

“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

"Selections from the Allen Notebooks".
Without Feathers (1975)

“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”

Woody Allen livre Mere Anarchy

"My Speech to the Graduates"
Side Effects (1980)
Variante: Mankind is facing a crossroad - one road leads to despair and utter hopelessness and the other to total extinction - I sincerely hope you graduates choose the right road
Source: Mere Anarchy

“The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.”

Also found in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.

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