WOODY ALLEN - WOODY ALLEN SAYS HE GOT HIS NEW YORK "FROM HOLLYWOOD"

WOODY ALLEN SAYS HE GOT HIS NEW YORK "FROM HOLLYWOOD"

Woody Allen says that the script for his latest movie, Whatever Works , which opens Friday, sat on a shelf for five years because it was too costly for him to film it in New York, where, like most Allen films, it is set. "It's a very expensive city to work in," Allen told USA Today . "It's gotten better in that they give you tax breaks. But everything [else] has gone up. I work on a very limited budget. If I had a bigger, more grand film to make, I wouldn't have a hard time." Indeed, he said, he would like to make all his films in New York, "but I can't afford to do it." Referring to his next film, presently called "Untitled Woody Allen London Project," Allen said, "I was going to make it in New York. I wanted to. But in New York I would have needed two, three extra million." When the USA Today reporter observed that Allen seems to romanticize the city, Allen did not demur. "I've never cared about representing it naturalistically. I always tried to show it the way I felt about it," he told the newspaper. "Guys like Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee depict New York very often very realistically. Very, very beautifully and very correctly. I don't. The New York I've shown over the years is the New York I got from Hollywood movies."

18/06/2009