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Livros no varal,Woody Allen · EUA · @arcade_publishing
Gostei. O começo é um pouco monótono, mas gostei de descobrir como ele começou a carreira e o que ele acha dos próprios filmes. Há várias sacadas muito engraçadas e das taquei várias frases. Fiquei convencido do relato dele quanto ao episódio da filha. Espantoso como mesmo com sucesso, ele ainda é inseguro.
“Over the years loved ones have said I’m a chronically dissatisfied person, and it’s true I’d always rather be where I’m not at the time.”
posição 287 · uma de 14 frases marcadas neste livro
As it is, having two loving parents I grew up surprisingly neurotic. Why, I don’t know.posição 14
I don’t want reality, I want magic.' And I have always despised reality and lusted after magic.posição 19
You would be shocked to know what I don’t know and haven’t read or seen.posição 50
So I’ve had many years of treatment and my conclusion is, yes, it has helped me, but not as much as I’d hoped and not in the way I’d imagined. I made zero progress on the deep issues; fears and conflicts and weaknesses I had at seventeen and twenty, I still have. The few areas where the problems are not so embedded, where one needs a little help, a push, maybe I got some relief. (I can go to a Turkish bath without having to buy out the room.) For me the value was having a person to be around to share my suffering with; hitting with the pro in tennis. Also for me a big plus was the delusion I was helping myself.posição 69
The universe is flying apart at the speed of light and you’re worried some guy in Sheboygan quibbles with your pacing?posição 170
My theory, after years of being in the movies, is that the problem is almost always the script. It’s much harder to write than direct, and a mediocre director can make a good movie from a fine script but a great director cannot make a lousy script into a good movie. OK, I say 'never.posição 172
Over the years loved ones have said I’m a chronically dissatisfied person, and it’s true I’d always rather be where I’m not at the time.posição 287
Sartre said, 'Hell is other people.' I would just like to change that to, 'Hell is other people’s taste.posição 299
I could see life as tragic or comic depending on my blood sugar level but always saw it as meaningless.posição 315
I have always hated reality, but it’s the only place you can get good chicken wings.posição 334
People believe what is important for them to believe, and each person has his or her own reason, sometimes not even known to them.posição 349
Whatever happens to my work when I’m gone is totally irrelevant to me. After I’m dead, I suspect very little will get on my nerves, even that annoying noise the neighbors make with their leaf blower.posição 359
My biggest regret? Only that I’ve been given millions to make movies, total artistic control, and I never made a great film.posição 359
Rather than live on in the hearts and mind of the public, I prefer to live on in my apartment.posição 360