W ALLEN opina de W ALLEN

Cerrando el libro de conversaciones con Woody Allen con Eric Lax a través de más de 30 años-- realmente una experiencia fascinante el ir viendo como una mente creativa va, por un lado, madurando y mutando, y como, por otra parte, se mantiene igual

Me gustan este tipo de libros y realmente dan ganas de ver de nuevo sus películas,
sobre todo las cintas que le han traído tanto dolor, y q personalmente me parecen estupendas:
Interiores y Recuerdos.

Allen es sin duda un genio (el cree que no) con un mundo absolutamente propio y dice tantas cosas que es innumerables. Pero un buen resumen es que siempre quiso ser un director-director, de dramas, y que, por otro lado, tiene perfectamente claro que como actor no puede hacer cualquier rol, por lo que sus roles necesariamente tienen que ser acotados.

Es cierto: tal como el mismo lo dice, nadie le creería como un sherrif sureño corrupto; pero a diferencia de Welles, por ejemplo, que se disfrazaba y maquillaba, Allen nunca intentó ser quién no era y eso no es ser mal actor, creo, es tener claro tu limitaciones pero tb tu lugar en el mundo y por eso cuando un piensa en Woody Allen piensa de inmediato en un forma de vida, una cierta sensibilidad, una ciudad en particular...

algunas citas subrayadas y la emocionante confesión final con que se cierra el libro:


Richard Schickel wrote a very nice essay about me once, saying that my audience left me at a certain point. And I thought that was the one thing he had wrong. It was that I left them; they didn´t leave me. They were very nice and if I had continued to live up to my end of the contract, they showed no signs of wanting to leave me and be anything other than a nice affectionate audience. I was the one that moved in a different direction, and a good-sized portion of them felt annoyed and betrayed. They didn´t like it when I did Interiors and Stardust Memories. One critic said that Interiors was an act of bad faith. I thought that was an overreaction. I tried to make a particular film and it didn´t work, it didn´t work. That´s fine. I completely respect the opinions of those people for whom it didn´t. But it wasn´t in bad faith.



My objective feeling is that I haven´t achieved anything significant artistically. I´m not saying this ruefully, just describing what I feel is true. I feel I made no real contribution to cinema. Compared to my contemporaries like Scorsese or Coppola or Spielberg, I´ve really influenced no one, not in any significant way. I mean a number of my contemporaries have influenced young directors...

aqui claramente se equivoca---- claramente: ha influido e inspirado a muchos!


When I was a kid I used to run into the cinema to escape -twelve or fourteen pictures a week sometimes. And as an adult, I´ve been able to live my life in a certain self-indulgent way. I get to make the films I want to make, and so for a year I get to live in that unreal world of beautiful women and witty men and dramatic situations and costumes and sets and manipulate reality. Not to mention all the wonderful music and places it´s taken me. Oh, and sometimes you get to date some of the actresses. What could be better? I´ve escaped into a life in the cinema on the other side of the camera rather than the audience side of it. Ironic that I make escapist films, but it´s not the audience that escapes--it´s me.