WOODY ALLEN - WOODY ALLEN: MAKING MOVIES AIN'T THAT BIG A DEAL

WOODY ALLEN: MAKING MOVIES AIN'T THAT BIG A DEAL

Woody Allen has downplayed his Hollywood auteur status, insisting that he has "no commitment to my work" in the sense of spending long, arduous weeks and months developing and producing it. "Look, it takes a couple of months to write a script. This isn't Finnegan's Wake," he told today's (Wednesday) Washington Post during an interview to promote his latest film, Scoop. (James Joyce said that it took him seven years to write Finnegan's Wake and that it should take readers that long to read it.) "I pull it out of the typewriter, bring it in, three days later I have a budget. Then we do pre-production, which is about 10 weeks. I mean, I'm not doing a $100 million budget. I'm working with $15 million or so. I shoot for about 10 weeks maximum."

26/07/2006