- Woody Allen: This is Soon-Yi Previn, the notorious Soon-Yi Previn.
- Woody Allen: I know I've got the kind of personality where when I'm here in Europe I miss New York, and when I'm in New York I miss Europe. I just don't want to be where I am at any given moment. I would rather be somewhere else. There's no way to beat that problem, because no matter where you are. It's chronic dissatisfaction. Anhedonia.
- Woody Allen: I'm appropriately animate for a human being in the context in which I exist.
- Woody Allen: The Europeans like pictures that drone on, and I'm good at making pictures that drone on.
- Woody Allen: They won't pay ten cents to see one of my movies, but passing in a gondola, they love it.
- [On why he likes playing blues]
- Woody Allen: There's nothing there between you and the pure feeling of playing. There's no cerebral part to it.
- Woody Allen: With intelligence comes great responsibility.