I Think Woody Allen Is

I Had Intended To Make Another Film, Called Pocket Money, Which Was To Be About Children At A School. I Was Very Much Intrigued By The Story [of Close Up] - It Came Into My Dreams And I Was Very Much Influenced By It. So I Called My Producer And Asked That We Put Aside Pocket Money And Start Something Else, And He Agreed.

I Think Being Someone In Love Is So Hard To Define, So Temporary, Because Retrospectively We Often Deny The State In Which We Were In Love.

I Do Believe In [robert] Bresson's Method Of Creation Through Omission, Not Through Addition.

All The Different Nations In The World, Despite Their Differences Of Appearance And Religion And Language And Way Of Life, Still Have One Thing In Common, And That Is What's Inside Of All Of Us. If We X-rayed The Insides Of Different Human Beings, We Wouldn't Be Able To Tell From Those X-rays What The Person's Language Or Background Or Race Is.

When I Find The Character, I Try To Spend Time With Them And Get To Know Them Very Well. Therefore My Notes Are Not From The Character That I Had In My Mind Before, But Are Instead Based On The People I've Met In Real Life.