Woody Allen at lunch in Cannes

[mphello]

Woody Allen says he's an atheist: he's an atheist. Bottom line. Period. That's it.

If he claims he's not a Jew, then he's not a Jew. Period. That's it.

Nobody else has the authority or right to proclaim "what" he is.

That is just dumb bullshit.

[mphello]

Woody Allen needs to make a smash-'em-up multi-car-chase super-spy big-alien-invasion mega-pirate teen-comedy blockbuster. Just for once. :)

[dave3197]

They're sitting with perhaps the most brilliant film maker in history, and they can't come up with better questions and comments than this? What morons.

[rttoronto]

I heart woody

[9162vb48]

Woody no goody!

[poissonnoir]

Is Woody still fucking his children? Just asking.  Do he and Roman Polanski get together to discuss past transgressions? He's lucky he's not in prison.

[goldhammerislame]

@poissonnoir you know nothing of this man you idiot.

[poissonnoir]

@goldhammerislame - Despite the name-calling, I will respond: he is a talented film-maker -- even a great film-maker. I used to enjoy his films immensely, but for me morality trumps artistic talent. And now -- it all turns to dust in my mouth. Please - if you're only going to insult - don't respond. Surely, we both have better things to do with our time.

[linghun]

@poissonnoir fuck you

[poissonnoir]

@linghun Thank-you for your witty rejoinder. If I were 12 years old, Woody would probably take up your suggestion.

[LeonTh3Duke]

Some of the comments in this video are just some of the most ignorant and just blatantly idiotic things ever spoken. So many heads need to be removed from their owners asses. Woody Allen is and will always be more talent and intelligent than practically everyone who even attempts to talk bad about him. I just feel sorry that half these people can't find and might never find love and so have to bitch and moan about some non-issue romance he had with his 22yo exwifes, adopted daughter.Losers tbqh

[cheeriosinabowl]

Can't stand the sight of this "man".

WA will never be anywhere near as good as the great, legendary Ingmar Bergman.

[martinschmit]

@cheeriosinabowl Are you an idiot? Woody Allen would easily say that about himself. You also clearly don't understand comedy or talent if you can not learn to respect both men. Go display your arrogance elsewhere, perhaps on a bathroom stall or a park bench.

[cheeriosinabowl]

@martinschmit

... my advice to you: FO !!

[martinschmit]

@cheeriosinabowl My advice to you: go goose a mammoth and get bitchslapped by it's troll.

[cheeriosinabowl]

@martinschmit

and my advice to you: FO !!

[martinschmit]

@cheeriosinabowl Clearly your shout is WEAK. Level up bitch. ; )

[cheeriosinabowl]

@martinschmit

... and clearly you are stupid and can't post a decent comment. FO.

[martinschmit]

@cheeriosinabowl Your idea of a decent comment is "FO". Need I say more? Woody Allen is terrific, his movies are excellent and his influences are quite clear. Spin it if you'd like, he's a prince of cinema.

[cheeriosinabowl]

@martinschmit

... you deserved that FO comment from me. I had to bring myself down to your level of maturity, which I don't like to do.

[martinschmit]

@cheeriosinabowl I'm immature because I think a person has some good ideas about life and is a fantastic cinematographer? Or is it because I think it worthwhile to discuss him on the internet? Lovely, kid.

[cheeriosinabowl]

@martinschmit

... do me and the rest of us a favor, and get lost. You're irritating.

[sonbarably]

cheap hack comic elevated by zionist corporate power despite the fact that his films are nothing more than a shameless bergman rip off

midnight...paris

what an imagination!  can't get more cheap or cliche, what the bourgoise criminal loves

money and cheap sentimentality

[yasminesaqer]

I adore Woody Allen. He truly is a gift to cinema.

[sonbarably]

@yasminesaqer

it's called "regifting" something that wasn't given to you in the first place

he rips off bergman for "style"

everything else has been recycled since his seventy's films. the only thing that varies is the intensity of his disrepect and exploitation of women

[022171]

the microphone was hidden in a bread roll.

[ryanfoley123]

pause at 0:30. Scary.

[vouquevou]

He is one of the most boring people I ever saw. His movies, full of "ego little me" frases, disguising a narcisistic personality that hides an immense feeling of inferioriy. And on the top of that he is so ugly! Nothing against that, but his fake intellectuality doesn't bring any balance to that as he tries so hard to do all the time, all the time.. Maybe I'd fall in love with his real self... But he's too old now... Anyway...

[mynameismeaw]

@vouquevou i think he's good looking, brilliant, and i would fall in love with him. Age and apperance don't matter to some people.

[anitasseo]

what a waste, that camera, that audio! thanks, but... couldn´t you at least put the camera nearer him!!?? its kind of stressing trying to get this, really. a shame, considering that you don´t meet allen everyday, do you? thanks anyway.. :/

[ePhilosopher9]

awww We love You In The Year of Our lord 2010: The Obama Spill and prettyish Petrolungas. You do know Paula, don't you?

[bapyou]

4:22 - Is that Soon Yi walking past in the background and sitting down next to Allen?

[Landrew120880]

@claireshana  I don't understand.

[elephunt78]

@claireshana and which 3 year old exactly? what the H are you talking about?

[Landrew120880]

@claireshana I think thou doest protest too much. Just a joke darlin'

[boogiebuddy01]

man aging sucks

[ccipop]

did the three year old know it? i don't think so. probably after growing up, this "child" came up with some angry plot line.

[TheJoyfulPianist]

I love WOODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[I4gotmyMANTRA]

I never heard anything about it.

[I4gotmyMANTRA]

What's your point.

[SheilaE82]

He is brilliant!

[Wavingclouds]

Great Clip. Thank you.

[obidan2]

You went and bothered Woody? Oh , God, never bother Woody, man!

[thevampirevalentine]

I'm 23, just getting into Woody Allen and couldn't care less who he married, he's brilliant.

[Landrew120880]

@thevampirevalentine Enjoy the ride with Woody. I've bee a fan since I was 12 and you'll enjoy his films over and over. Such films like "Radio Days", "Another Woman" and "Stardust Memories" you can watch over and over. He is similar to my other fave director Robert Altman. His personal life? None of my business. I wouldnt wanna throw stones, they might come back to hit me.

[godfatherofwiseguys]

it's just sad that a great artist will be remembered by the public as "the guy who married his wife's adopted daughter." someday, will Woody Allen be remembered as the "the guy who married his wife's adopted daughter", or the guy who made Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bullets Over Broadway.

[ssneguro4ka]

one is sure, that he's a great intellect and artist. if you want to judge his private life , which content is not addressed to us - go to pulp and keep your mouth open there. will he remain in history? he already is an icon. there are many bastards that in artistic career came out with their genius. I wouldn't like to have him as a partner (even t. I find him hot with that brain), but I'm happy to enjoy his work.

[cobrakeister]

Allen screwed his womans kid. Isnt that enough for you?

Now argueing technicallities, I cant prove that Allen exists.

Allen is a scumbag.

So will say history.

[elephunt78]

"Allen screwed his womans kid." Hmm, well that statement alone just doesn't fly when you look at the facts. If your own morality states that one can't be in love with the 22 year old adopted daughter of your ex-girlfriend, that's fine, nobody cares Cobrakeister...but your morality doesn't make Woody Allen, as you so eloquently put it earlier, a "chicken raper". Now, let's label you with something more in line with your personality..does "douchebag" work for you? Yes, I think that'll do.

[68david09]

It's not like she was underage. And no, He;s a genius, that's what history will remember.

[bapyou]

Lots of poeple are scumbags. How many of them have made amongst the most hilarious movies of all time?

Bourgious attitudes have never created much of anything besides more bourgious attitude.

[cobrakeister]

Judge not, that's hilarious.

I heard this little pedophile Allen once refer to BOB HOPE as a selfish performer.

LOL

Allen is trash, plain and simple. Smart, dumb, artistic, tone deaf, prodigy, WHATEVER he is or isn't ... he IS a Chicken raper. Allen loves to screw kids.

[I4gotmyMANTRA]

A 22 year old is not a child.

[Doumbeck]

Woody is a great film maker... Leave his spiritual stuff out of it and just enjoy his movies.. if you are intelligent enough to appreciate them..

[cobrakeister]

He's a kid screwer.

He screws kids.

[Doumbeck]

Thou shalt not judge others lest you be judged you freak!! Get your own mind out of the gutter.. Jesus said: let he without sin caste the first stone.. Just deal with your own sick impulses..

[elephunt78]

Um, ok, so I gotta demand that you justify that statement with evidence. I'm assuming your reference to "kids" is regarding his current wife of 12 years Soon-Yi Previn, who was 22 when they began a legal relationship (she was adopted by Mia Farrow and her then husband..Mia was never married to Woody btw). Just want to make sure that when you make such allegations you have proof, especially when the allegations are against a brilliant artist. Thanks.

[Ephesians1957]

I love Woody Allen , even though he dosen't believe in the God who blessed this wonder full Filmaker. He is Jewish so there the chosen so for them there is room for a pardon ! Feel me ?

[wungabunga]

Get a microphone.

[lonelygnome1]

why is he always talking about being Jewish when he is an atheist? I find this an annoying fact.

[elephunt78]

because being Jewish is both a religion as well as a culture/heritage/bloodline. What's annoying are ignorant statements from folks like you. Just watch this rare clip and enjoy already.

[lonelygnome1]

Judaism is based very strongly around its relgious practice. woody allen just skips that and takes all the benefits.

[elephunt78]

who cares though? His mom was a Jew, his dad was a Jew, he's a Jew...there's a difference between being a Jew Atheist and a Catholic atheist no? The latter doesn't make much sense. But really, does it matter anyway? Are you "offended" or just "annoyed"? Not that either one makes a lick o difference.

[JoelBWeisberg]

A very wise explanation elephunt78. You saved me the job of jumping in to explain this fact. Thanks!

[alexalex3131]

I think the Cohen Brothers films come closest to Woody's sensibiities and quality, without trying to imitate him of course. (See Burn After Reading!) Also looking foward to Woody's next with Larry David. Great combo and Larry might be Woody's new muse.

[j3rmz0r]

Great man, wonderful films. Much funnier than paint drying, I think that is a claim he would back up himself.

[cpnstav]

Woody Allen about aas funny as drying paint

[blakeciulla]

someday you may be as old as woody is now, and then people like you now, will make fun of you, and then you will get very sad and die very alone.

[jorgejackass]

Who said he was a comedian?, his dramas are timeless.

[bassostolos]

People, GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That s not Britney Spears! It s Woody Allen!

I guess you don't get it. What a crazy world we live in. Stupidity reigns. We are talking about such an important figure in American Film, and yet people only care about who he s screwing! Who cares if she s his ex's adopted daughter. Good for him. You re probably 40 years younger and still can't get laid.

[BlandBoy]

how old is this guy now? ...

Must be early-late seventies?

[angrywhitewomen]

man so stoked about seeing the new movie with larry david. its gunna be a shame when woody stops making films. i find it odd there arent a lot of filmmaker "followers" especially for his writing.

i wonder if woody allen had started in filmmaking today would he have been successful?

[MattieCooper]

What a guy~! Brilliant!

[tweetermkyman]

The news of Larry David being in Woody's new film is extremely exciting. It seems like a great pairing and hopefully the movie will be great.

[wakingpug]

I wish the sound was better. Interesting piece. It seems so natural... the feel of a couple of fans who just happen to run into Woody and ask him a few questions. Good stuff.

[wickedcapedkid]

I love Woody Allen. He's my favorite director.

[Blanco18best]

woody allen is goooooooooood!!!!!

[aweiss]

Good interview, how did you get time with him?

[beckpod1]

Jis personal life is none of my business. He's made great movies...Movies now are so dumbed-down..peoples attention span is getting shorter by the minute. movies now are like comic books..not much depth! Cartoon and video game heroes are selling...because people don't read books anymore. Wrong people are making decissions and leading us to stupidity!

[DalecooperZ]

A Militant Freudian Athiest...I love this guy....

[puffetee]

what a coincidence, that is how he acts in his films, aaaah woodymcwoods.

[vatolocosmart]

excellent les go ahead woody i am your fan

[cindiloohoo]

Filthy child molester.

[bevoscomedy]

wat a DWEEP ASS

[4lafs]

It's shocking that with his experience and track record he still struggles to get minimum financing for his projects. I know he has a niche market, but c'mon, he can make gems. Instead $200 Million will be spent on The Hulk as eyecandy for tasteless sheep.

[paul8kangas]

Woody is my hero. I wish I could make a film as funny as his. See my small funny videos on You tube: paul8kangas

[BoomSteakCanada]

cant even do it, sounds so grimey...

[jakob0815]

my hero. i love woody's way of life... ;)

-> /watch?v=18My4i_GlAY

[mikhalt1]

guys still alive wow

[NirvanaLord]

Atheist douchebag...

[eleanorruby]

he never stated he was an atheist. my guess is that he's agnostic.

[barry06]

he said he's freudian. that means he is strictly, even "militantly" as he says, atheist.

[eleanorruby]

hm, i had no idea that saying you're interested in freudian psychology means that you automatically embody everything for which it stands. woody described himself as "militantly atheist"?

[barry06]

just watch the interview again...he does say it ok. and why would you call yourself freudian if you didnt embrace the ideology? thats like calling yourself a socialist while embracing some conservative values.

[wakingpug]

He's also referred to himself as an agnostic. I saw that from an interview in the '70s, so I don't know if his position has evolved or not.

[wickedcapedkid]

He firmly stated in this video, "I'm still a Freudian atheist." Besides, I mean, watch his movies. The guy is a strict existentialist.

[ukulazy]

When has Woody Allen claimed to be an existentialist? If I'm wrong, please educate me, as I always thought the only label he wore was 'atheist'.

"I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member." - Groucho/Woody :]

[TristateTripper]

Wow the sound is shit

[funwithwarcrimes]

Fabulous. Great to see you Woody!

[doctorjosiek]

Holy cow it's woody allen!!

[lordartzi]

this guy still alive?

[MrNiceHk]

New York is indeed a fantastic place my 2nd favorite city on the planet

[PissOFFuWanker]

This guy is a pervert. He helped Mia Farrow raise Soon-Yi Previn and the other adopted kids, Gave her baths etc.

Talk about grooming your victim..this guy takes the cake.

[Cherri59]

The scary part is that he got away with it. Groomed her for years first. Started taking advantage of her in her teenage years and turing her against her mother. When Mia discovered his leachery and took him to court it was too late! It disgusting what money will buy you out of!

[eleanorruby]

what are you, mia farrow's lawyer? this happened years ago and it has nothing to do with allen's filmmaking. fucking get over it.

[Cherri59]

When you take naked pictures of a teenager who calls you Daddy all her life you are a sick pervert that needs to be watched. Constantly. Let your 14 year-old daughter sit on his lap and see what he does to her.

[eleanorruby]

remind me to do this once i have a fourteen year-old daughter. i'm confident that nothing disgraceful would happen (unless of course you count the initial act of me forcing my teenage daughter onto an elderly man's lap).

[friendsofmikelove]

Does anyone else think it's funny that people deliberately waste their download time by searching for youtube clips and commenting on things they don't like?

[mrNHC]

aint this the dude that banging his own daughter?!?! fucking disgusting man!

[onjoFilms]

I love Woody. A true artist.

[theonewiththecap]

if someone could provide a transcript..

[404ErrorNotfound]

Woody Allen = PEDOPHILE

[jfenc]

Bet he'd like the JFCSHOW

[humilde7777]

nice interview, picks up his tab...

[wilcox24]

the sound could be a lot better

[CharmingAthens]

Isn't he the one who married his daughter? Sicko. You don't raise a kid to marry it.

[theonewiththecap]

it was Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, she adopted her before living with Allen.

[saucy05]

imagine who his wife felt. ouch.

[theonewiththecap]

i'm not judging, just correcting/complementing.

and the girl married him 'cause she wanted to, she was no kid anymore. and come on, pedophile 'cause he was doing it with a 22 year-old? you purist hypocritical wankers.

[saucy05]

IMO his actions are so wrong in many levels it's not even funny. He basically indoctrinated a girl, who he helped raise, into marrying him. I don't care how he felt about this girl he should've kept his urges to himself and look for some other mate his own age (excluding his family lol).

The difference between (him and you) and the rest of us is we are civilized enough not to act out every fantasy we have.

[theonewiththecap]

how do you know i act out every fantasy i have? omg. are you my neighbour or something? i'm scared now.

you talk like you were there and know how everything happened.

[eleanorruby]

he didn't help raise her. he and mia weren't even living together, and soon-yi wasn't his adopted daughter; she was mia's. why does someone need to find someone their own age? what does age matter if two people are compatible?

also, i act on most of my fantasies, such as responding to this horrendously misinformed comment.

[eleanorruby]

couldn't agree more.

[wickedcapedkid]

He married his girlfriend's 22 year old adopted daughter. Not exactly "sick," just rather complicated and dramatic.

[bronco2019]

Woody Allen is an idiot.

[whatwhatwhat7]

wooody!

[OAKCREEKFALLS]

THis was awesome to watch. Thanks for posting.