Maybe It's Shallow Of Me

I Had Heard All Sorts Of Stories About Woody Allen's Directing - Directorial Approach. And Some Of Them Turned Out To Be Myth. But, One Of Them Was That He Doesn't Rehearse And Another Was That He Doesn't Really Direct, If He Doesn't Like It...he Cuts It Out Of The Movie, Or Even Replaces You.

It's Entirely To Do With Personality, I Think. There Are Good Directors Who Talk A Lot, Bad Directors Who Talk A Lot, And Good Directors Who Don't Say Much And Vice-versa. It Just Depends On Whether People Respond To That Personality And Whether People Have A Willingness To Do Something For Them.

I Do Also Think It Eludes Genre A Bit - Not In Any Groundbreaking Way But You Can't Quite Call It A Comedy And You Can't Quite Call It A Romantic Anything. It's Not Quite A Drama Either Really. But It Has Elements Of All Those Things.

But It's Interesting Being Directed By Someone Who Is A Very Good Actor. There's Nothing Like It. It Might Sound Like A Territorial Thing About What I Do, But I Don't Think You Can Understand What It Is Until You've Done It. I Know That To Be A Fact.

It's A Funny Thing - The Reality Is I Have No Feelings About School. It's Long Gone. Funnily Enough, The Bad Memories - Of Which I Don't Have Any Left To Be Honest, I Can Just Remember A Sense Of Tedium - Have Faded. And Teachers That I Liked Have Remained Quite Vivid. There Are Three Or Four Left.