“ That’s the whole secret, is if you hire great people and you don’t mess them up with a lot of analysis and conversation and speculation and nonsense—if you just get out of their way and shut up, they give you the performance that has made them the great performer that they are.
Woody Allen on directing actors, from Woody Allen: A Documentary, which yes, of course you should watch (via lonelysandwich)
Sunday night I found myself kind of half-crying into my leftover pumpkin pie about the meaninglessness of existence and the fact that I was too short to reach most of the records at the record store I had just gone to for the first time (fuck that place). So in an effort to cheer me up, we camped out in bed and watched this Woody Allen documentary for four hours straight. I soon forgot about all of that stuff — the records, the pie, and the fact that we’re all going to die — and instead just worried about how many Woody Allen movies I still haven’t seen. TOO MANY.
