Woody Allen on Woody Allen

In a series of conversations conducted over several years, Woody Allen talks about his work with a candour and a reflective honesty that his public persona rarely makes available. About the films he is proudest of and the ones he thinks failed. About his influences — Bergman, Fellini, the French New Wave, the Marx Brothers. About what it is like to write, to direct, to perform, and to do all three simultaneously for five decades. About whether comedy and tragedy are really different. About New York. About mortality.

Stig Björkman’s interviews are the definitive portrait of one of the most prolific and most significant filmmakers in American cinema — a writer-director-performer who has made a film virtually every year since the late 1960s, creating in that body of work a portrait of a sensibility as rich and as contradictory as any in art cinema.

Essential for Allen fans and an invaluable document of American film history. Published by Faber & Faber.