Quotes & Sayings About Cinema Woody Allen

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films. — Woody Allen

When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers. — Woody Allen

I think Hollywood has gone in a disastrous path. It's terrible. The years of cinema that were great were the '30s, '40s, not so much the '50s ... but then the foreign films took over and it was a great age of cinema as American directors were influenced by them and that fueled the '50s and '60s and '70s. — Woody Allen

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art. — Woody Allen