Woody Allen has won numerous awards as an actor and director. Now, at 88, he could imagine stopping working. Something else is more fun for him, he says.
Film star Woody Allen could imagine his future life without working as a director. “I wouldn’t miss filmmaking,” the 88-year-old told the German edition of Playboy magazine. “Because ultimately it’s a pretty annoying job. You have to get up early, then you spend the whole day in the cold.”
The four-time Oscar winner (“The Urban Neurotic”, “Hannah and Her Sisters”, “Midnight in Paris”) says he prefers to stay at home, train there with training bands and go on the treadmill. “Then I sit down and write. Writing alone gives me great pleasure. If I want, I take a break and play a little clarinet,” said the passionate jazz musician. “That’s quite enough for me. So I make a very good slacker.”
Allen’s new tragicomedy “A Stroke of Luck” is coming to German cinemas this week. It is his 50th film. The director told Variety magazine at the world premiere in September that he still had many film ideas and would like to continue. But he doesn’t know whether he still has enough energy to raise the funds for it. Allen is having increasing difficulty getting his films financed, especially in the USA, due to allegations of abuse against him.
In the “Playboy” interview he also reported that living with his wife Soon-Yi Previn was more important to him than working on his films. “It is indescribably much more important than all of my films. You can just throw them in the trash when I’m no longer there. Maybe there will be a few royalties for my children, but they don’t have any greater significance. Yes It makes me very proud that I had such a lasting impact on my wife.” His wife once told him that he had enabled her to become the best version of herself.
Source: Stern
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