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  • I do not look at his personal life, only the parts from which I think that inspired his movies. I look at Woody Allen as a cinematic artist. I do not care about his personal affairs, I care about his artistic products. He might be neurotic, but doesn't that make him so creative? I mean, isn't his chaotic way of thinking just fascinating and entertaining?

  • Recounting a detailed list of why you're not neurotic seems to me like the actions of a neurotic man.

  • Woody Allen is awesome. The people who dislike him and call him weird are still probably fans of Michael Jackson...

  • Woody Allen has been married to soon-yi for 15 years, their relationship started when she was 20. Therefore she was of legal age and 15 years of marriage confirms that their relationship is consensual. There is nothing wrong with their relationship.

  • @esachazee They, Allen and Previn, say their relationship started when she was 20. That doesn't make him less of a creep. He started working with Mia Farrow in the early 80's at the time when soon yi would have been around 10 years old. He dated her mother therefore it can be concluded that he did watch her "grow up". He is a creep.

  • Woody Allen is not a filmmaker, it's a fucking comedian.

  • @clockwrkornge Not a filmmaker? Really? Fascinating conclusion.

  • I like his sweater.

  • WA makes my skin crawl. He is a twisted, bitter dwarf.

  • very talented =] ...but what a werido O_o

  • I like the way Woody has convinced himself he's not neurotic. We all live in our own model of self delusion, it's our mechanism for coping with the basic grim reality of life and death.

  • I think he's funny....haha AND quite brilliant.

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  • I've read his plays as well as seen his films. Find it quite difficult to believe he's not really neurotic!

  •  love him

  • Only reason I'm here is because his name rhymes with Hoodie Allen!

  • Man, it'd be great to enjoy working...

  • Who ever said he was a pedophile? I don't understand where that rumour comes from...at least I' hope it isn't true as I highly respect him.

  • @elementz1986 He's not a pedophile. He cheated on his girlfriend with her adopted daughter who was 21 years old. Kinda creepy, but definately not pedophilia.

  • Only now I can really appreciate the genius he is.It took me a long time.I wish i could have known him before.But I think now I'm mature enough for his movies.

  • @Tyanes17 me too.

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  • i love you <3

  • woody allen u rock my world...NOTTTT U UGLY OLD TREEE!!

  • why in this interview the reporter doesn't mention that woody allen has F*CKED scarlett johansson!!jesuuuuuuss in what planet are we living??reporter u LIAARRRR

  • oh, this does Woody Allen can not endure it and a minute .... films I've seen it so schizophrenic .... straight horror! Some clumsy play roles ..... no words!

  • WOODY NO GOODY!

  • I love Kierkegaard

  • he looks better as he gets older. 100% agree!

  • I find it a little hard to believe that he's not a least a little bit like his characters and stage persona. Come on. The humor has to come from a real place inside. He's using "neurotic" as if it just meant a non-functional basket case. I think he's just trying to distance himself from his image, which is understandable.

  • You all need to understand that Mr. Allen is a writer. He wrote comedy professionally for 50's and 60's TV. He wrote his own stand up, which was revolutionary. He writes movies now and he's really good at it.

  • you can't read this guy

  • I thought he was Stephen Hawking lol

  • @tsasaa12  he he he..same here

  • these questions seem to be a bit shallow. maybe i'm dumb though and just don't get them

  • Yeah, he's normal...when he's not shagging his 14 year old adopted kid. Ha!

  • Adorable Woody! remark how terrible is the reporter who's reading (very badly) the questions..

  • "Great minds have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre thinkers". -Einstein-

    The tiny, boring, undernourished minds would fail to see his genius.

    He's a real mensch!

  • I think he was kind of neurotic about how he tried to convince the interviewer that he's not neurotic haha

  • @ilikevines I think its neurotic that you brought it up in the first place.

  • "Never influenced anybody?" Hasn't Woody ever seen "When Harry Met Sally"??

  • ....you guys read Mia Farrow's memoirs to understand him better....

    His talented nature is very controversial..

  • To me, Woody Allen is overrated. I don't know anyone who likes him. Something unsettling about this person.

  • @cheeriosinabowl tats because u r a fukin moron ... watch all his movies n u'l understand , u pathetic excuse for a human being.

  • @rockstarrist

    ... your post makes you look more pathetic than you already are. Grow up!

  • at 70 something he still looks like a kid

  • @wethecopilots

    .... well to me, he looks 70.

  • I don't understand all this 'pedophile' talk. There's not a speck of conclusive evidence against him, none of the children have come out against him, and Soon-Yi was of age the entire time.

    Regardless, the video is about his life as a filmmaker and his influence in the entertainment industry, not his private life. If you want to talk down about him using subjects you don't know the truth about, do it somewhere else. This is about his work, not some scandal that's been over nearly twenty years.

  • @KirKir21 regardless of age he married his fucking step daughter! thats fked up

  • @tupacsomething69 not true. Soon Yi was Mia Farrow & Andre Previn's adopted daughter. Woody and Mia were never married.

  • @KirKir21 True, but i believe the whole talk about him being freaky or a pedophile is just a passive-agressive way for people that aren't either eloquent enough or honest enough to admit and say "It was VERY fucking weird for him to marry his stepdaughter, NEVERMIND her age. I just find it so creepy that it gives me a constant feeling of unease". Personally, i'd be lying if i said i give a fuck about it

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  • Leave it to Time/Life to ask probing and meaningful questions...

  • Woody Allen IS neurotic. He doesn't talk to any fans on the streets out of fear, has a lot of self-professed phobias, is preoccupied with death, and is a hypochondriac. He's changing his tune now about being neurotic, but back in the 70s he seemed to almost proudly admit he was neurotic.

  • I repsect his art but he identified as neurotic for years - perhaps until the custody trial. And I wonder why when he wasn't permitted to be alone with his own children as per court order, was he permitted to adopt two more with his wife/stepdaughter who he enjoyed taking pictures of in the nude while in a 12 year relationship with her mother.

  • Listen, leave the man alone, and I'm sick of seeing youtubers insulting pretty much every actor on youtube...Woody is a gentle guy, from all my reading and watching of his films...he's far from perfect and so aren't we all....give basic respect to people despite things they may have done wrong.

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  • this man is brilliant

  • what a wonderful man

  • Try telling his women that he is an immoral abusiac. They are together and happy after many many years. The moralising element is laughable. His successful because he does what he loves. For me that is an inspiration, regardless of what the critics say about his output. He will always therefore have a place in my affections and those of thousands and thousands of people. Thank God for Woody.

  • @jg33brunner: The sentiment expressed is well-received! By the way, I am not a pedophiliac. I gravitate toward gerontological erotica.

  • Would be so nice to hear him sing... :)

  • @chicoframbuesa watch "everyone says i love you" he sang in it

  • Love his work... don't like his interviews.  I think it because, as he says... he is just a blue collar guy.

  • love this guy.

  • i fucking love woody allen. 

  • cda174:

    wonderful!

  • Frank Sinatra offered to have Allen's legs broken when Allen was found to be having an affair with Mia Farrow adopted daughter.

  • @ClaireLe: Mia just could not stop adopting children. She sought psychological as well as pyschotropic medications for this proclivity/compulsion. When Woody retired for the evening, there was usually a new adoptee in the bed. Fortunately, Soon-Yi Previn could talk, a capacity that Ms. Farrow was then working on.

  • @TheBigDelicious Mia may not be the world best wife but it really doesn't matter who Allen married. It is wrong to have that sort of relationship with a little girl.

  • @ClaireLe: I concur with your initial observation. By the standard that you employ, do you think it is "right or wrong" that Maria Shriver cajoled and seduced the emotionally dwarfed 'little boy,' Arnold Schwarznegger?

  • HEEEEEYYY ITS THE OLD JEW WHO ADOPTED AND RAISED A LITTLE GIRL JUST TO MARRY HER....YES FOLKS HIS ASIAN WIFE WAS ADOPTED RAISED BY GUESS WHO WOODY JEW ALLEN

    .........relax im not an anti semi or a jew hater

  • HEY YOU STILL SOUND LIKE JUST ANOTHER RACIST AGASING JEWS SO GO F YOURSELF

  • @dfowler1976 OH HERE WE GO IF INSULT THE BLACKS ITS FINE IF WE INSULT THE CHINKS ITS FINE BUT IF ITS A JEW OHHHH NOOOOOOO HE SAID SOMETHING BAD ABOUT THE JEWWW OOHHH NOOOOOOOO!!! THE HOLOCAUST HAPPEN OH NOO EVEN THOUGH "STALIN" KILLED MORE PEOPLE THAN HITLER AND HE WAS WORKING FOR THE JEWS!!!! NO DICKFACE IM NOT A RACIST FUCK NOR AM I AN ANTI SEMI....IM JUST TELLING THE TRUTH SO SIT THERE WATCH YOUR VID AND SHUT THE FUCK UP

  • @CAZPERsayz I agree with your comment completely!

  • @CAZPERsayz If you weren't antisemitic, I don't think you'd have to bother mentioning that he's Jewish in your comments. That doesn't really apply to what you were saying at all, does it?

  • Woody Allen is a fuckin pedophile they need to have an interview on when to castrate this scum hole bastard and then keep his sorry ass away from children as well!

  • @SuperZeitGeist1 : I cannot get enough of your humanity , humor, perspicacity and sentimentaliy Please post more!

  • @TheBigDelicious Hey I am just saying what I feel and what is the truth only about this sick bastard.

  • you know nothing, obviously about human nature, we all "sin" we all have the ability to do bad, even horrible things...it was wrong what he did, however, he is brilliant, and has contributed to this world far more than most, in awakening minds, and being a voice to so many who don't have a voice...think before you write, sir.

  • @dfowler1976 Dont try to defend this child molester with your bullshit ok! This asshole has contributed nothing but extra crimes that are done to children the world will be better when he is fuckin dead end of story! And you must be a pedophile yourself because nobody defends things like this unless they practice it themselves so you just told on yourself and you go fuck yourself and not other children like your friend woody allen! Molesting children is not human nature dumbass!

  • I'm flagging this right now...start looking deeper into human nature...learn to forgive...he has done far more good than bad..unlike bankers, politicians, and war mongers...how would you like it if you did something really bad, but just one thing, and no one ever forgave you and called you horrible names. Go fuck yourself.

  • With all the accolades he continues to get he is and will always be a Sick Pedophile!

  • @marybethcold1 :

    Def COLD fitting yr name....ignorant as well

  • He now looks like an aging Jew, his age has made him less funny, perhaps that's down to all the scandal in recent years

  • @kevinturvy lol that was hilarious

  • Long live Woody Allen.

  • Interestingly... Woody Allen Led Me To Discover

    The Great Foreign Film Directors... Godard, Bergman, Fellini...

    I Am Forever Appreciative. -

  • " i've stolen from the best" i love this guy

  • Genius.

  • @MrHastadam

    he has aspergers, that probably explains why he doesnt keep eye-contact or looks somewhere else

  • did anybody notice that he mostly doesn't look at the interviewer in the eye and always looks on somewhere on the floor.

  • is it me or is he is starting to look more and more like stephen hawking?

  • people always romanticize that successful artists are neurotics. It's really hard to be sucessful at anything if one is neurotic

  • @neonaction Woody Allen, Richard Lewis, Robin WIlliams, Jim Carey, etc etc. Many comedians are 'neurotic' and there's plenty of information that can explain why that is. Woody Allen underwent psychoanalysis for 30 years and states that he is still agoraphobic and claustrophobic. I see nothing romantic about neuroses, and I don't know of anyone that does, but there are many successful artists that have mental health issues and far more unsuccessful ones who are just as great but less lucky.

  • @neonaction bullshit, you cant write such realistic roles without having that neurotic gene. the great woody may no longer be neurotic in his old age, but saying he never has been is just denial

  • @neonaction I respect your view, but I disagree as I can think of many successful artists and composers especially who were very neurotic, Edvard Munch being the finest example that comes to mind for me :)

  • @neonaction You know this from expirience?

  • @neonaction reminds me of an old mr show sketch, watch?v=8GfgnBEZsj4

  • I wish he himself were actually neurotic... it would make me feel better in my own misery.

  • I feel your pain...I'm the same way.

  • F U C K I N G A D S!!!!

  • ancora con stè pubblicità....ma basta...

  • I like this old man.

  • All his movies revolve around his being an unfunny jerk. This may have worked for Chaplin or Buster Keaton, but he's simply not in their league. If it's not funny, it's not funny. I'd get a bigger laugh off of the video of the farting cat.......

  • @terrryc vicky christina barcelona doesn't even feature him...so there. ever seen sleeper or bananas? is he an unfunny jerk in those two movies? you know what YOU'RE not funny, and you'll never BE funny. and are you implying that keaton and chaplin acted like unfunny jerks? city lights? the general? I think keaton is anything but a jerk in The General. I really don't think you know what you're talking about.

  • "I start having some problems with reality".

    This guy is fucking weird, it looks like he incorporated the "funny" into his behavior and he says this kind of sentences so naturally you never know when he is joking, lying or talking seriously. In hist Dick Cavet interview here in YouTube, you can it's the same thing since he was young.

  • Horrible director, Awesome actor.

  • @mattjnor98 horrible assessment, dumb comment

  • @bottleracket What I meant to say was, Woody Allen is a awesome actor, but I'm not a big fan of his directing skills (sorry for not being specific).

  • @mattjnor98 Well, my fine friend, there is a sizable difference between "not being a big fan" of someone's skills and thinking of his/her/its skills as "horrible." I lean towards Matt's side in this argument.

  • @mattjnor98 Let me guess who is great for you... Michael Bay!!?.

  • @deepban He's okay, but he's not the best. Steven Spielberg is the best director out there so far, even though I also wish Woody Allen does better on his filmmaking career.

  • @mattjnor98 Spielberg? REally? I honestly believe, along with Lucas, he is one of the most overrated directors. Jaws, ET, ... If that is the greatest director, we are far gone in cinema-though Schindler's List is his highest achievment.

    Kurosawa, Bunuel, Fellini, and Bergman-Nows that's were it all is.

  • @PassionofACritic

    Couldn't agree more. Fellini and Bergman, specially, drive me crazy... in a good sense of it.

    8 1/2, Persona, Wild Strawberries... I could go on forever or, you know, at least until I'm off with all their films.

  • @mattjnor98 you need to get out more often...

    steven spielberg, are you pulling my leg?

  • @mattjnor98 The thing with Spielberg's films is that they were considered ground-breaking at their time and very often the music was so brilliant that MADE the films the hits they eventually became. However I think a lot of filmmakers nowadays have copied such movies and now Spielberg is a bit behind in originality. He is now, in my view, a regular directing talent whose successful past career precedes him to the point of considerable overratedness (if there's such a word I can use..)

  • lol:

    "middle class, blue collar, beer-drinking, television tee shirt jerk at home."

    haha gotta love woody

  • He's about as blue collar as Dwayne, my pampered poodle.

  • Brilliant man, genius!

  • Adoro os filmes de Woody Allen. Ele retrata como ninguém as neuroses do mundo contemporâneo. Com um humor fino e irônico. Mundo moderno, mundo complexo e fragmentado. Convido a assistirem a um vídeo-poema sobre a perplexidade do homem contemporâneo, com a poesia “Perplexidade em paz”, imagens de grande força e a música “Sonata ao luar” de Beethoven. Procurar no youtube por: Perplexidade em paz

  • Don't buy Fosters, it tastes like piss!

  • ¡Ofú!, es que yo también cuando escucho a Wagner me entran ganas de invadir Polonia. Ainchhhh, cuánto malaje anda suelto, venga va, los pinos (menores) están protegidos _pero_ por la gracia de Dios.

  • Thankxxx to let me meet him agains on here!!..from Minervenus Artists!

  • Im pretty sure your collar is not blue. hehe.

  • Why does D.P. shift to black and white and put the picture on tilt? It takes away from the interview and says "Look at me! Look at my photography!"

    For Pete's sake nail the camera down, take a few angles with a second camera and let the interview do its thing.

  • @thestoryplease Agreed. That's a pet peeve of mine too.

  • In the shauwuh....GREAT!!!!~E

  • who's woody allen?

  • @giveobamaquarters best be trollin'

  • thought it was steven hawkin when i saw him

  • Kassem G rulez

  • wtf is with everyone saying this guy is neurotic? he's just strategically covering his huge eyebags with his glasses!!

  • He's too modest. His influence on Seinfeld/Curb is huge.

  • Woody Allen sucks. His movies are boring and gay.

  • help me , i am not able to hear the voice , anyone who please white for me ,thank u

  • Kassem G brought me here

  • Leave it to Woody Allen to know about relationships....

    He married his ex-wife's adopted daughter.

    People are going to talk.

  • This pussy likes nice hard nigger woodies in his mouth.

  • watch ,dont fish and drive!

  • I don't think it's fair to judge his relationship with Soon-Yi. All we know is what we read in the mass media. None of us know them personally. Legally he was never her father, and she said she never considered him as a father-figure.

  • @juliandunn

    thank goodness there's someone who is not manipulated by the media! whew, you are awesome! :D

  • ''MI LUV U LONG TIME'' i bet u hear that alot woody..

  • woody allen is a perverted freak. but hey it is hollywood right?

  • "Outside of the shower, I start to have some problems with reality."

  • I took a class about his films... literally changed my life for the better!

    It made me learn about women, love, and most important of all, myself.

    Live long and Prosper, Mr. Allen, so that I can watch more of your movies. :)

  • @imreallyjin can u plz gimme the details about this class? thx

  • @coloradoflier

    its TDGE122. Basically, it is once a week lecture for 3 hours. The professor will talk about variables/factors that consist of Woody Allen's movies. Screenplay, theme, cinematography, casting, music, WA's personal life, etc which affect the way he makes his movies. Then there are 3 essays due, 2 midterm papers and 1 final research paper.

    For the midterm papers - You focus on one theme (WA has many, such as psychotherapy, love vs. sex, morality, God is dead, etc)

  • @coloradoflier

    yeah, so the professor talks for about an hour in the beginning of the class, then we watch a movie (WA's movie generally runs ~95mins average) and he comes back up to hold a class discussion. He lets everyone say anything, and reply his thought & expertise to that opinion. He's really good at leading this conversation, even if someone says something completely random/sometimes silly, he would add something into make that argument more valid.

    Only at UCSD! :D

  • for some reason i thought Time was interviewing woody harrelson XD

  • I'm not interested in his private life. Only his films.  Some of which I like.

  • Great artists can do what they want . They have license to behave strangely, immorally, unorthodoxally, etc..... They can be assholes and not follow the accepted social guidelines. They are above the laws that govern our social mores. Look at Beethoven, Picasso, Gaugin, Chaplin, etc

  • I put a lot of thought into this comment.

  • This man is touted as being funny, but really he's tragic.

  • Morally, this man makes me sick. I love his films though... he has me torn

  • fuck this guy.

  • I have much respect for Woody Allen, but I have to say his long-ass speech about not being neurotic was quite neurotic :p

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  • his movies suck ass

  • @russmckinley So does your grammar.

  • @jaames2295 um.."his movies suck ass"

    that's perfect grammar little kiddo

    movies are plural, therefore they SUCK without an S

    my grammar was perfect

    you wanna try again, little faggot?

  • @russmckinley I'm sure you're a 13-year-old all alone at home with nothing better to do than trolling around youtube shit talking everything you see. Now, do YOU want to try again? I'm sure you feel real tough when you call 26-year-olds little kiddos. You're a disgrace.

  • @jaames2295 are you actually replying to something from almost a month ago?

    get a life, kiddo

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  • we know he has so much psychiatric disgnosis that his characters have

  • i clicked on this to see cheers woody allen, not old head woody allen. nahmean?