Woody Allen (1935-)    

I've never, ever in my life had any interference.     I've always had final cut, no-one saw scripts,     no-one saw casting. So since Take the Money and     Run (1969), I've been spoiled. But recently, at     about the time of Match Point (2005), the studios     began to behave differently. They started to say,     Look, we like to make films with you and we'll     give you the money, but we don't want to be     treated as if we're just a bank, putting money     in a bag and then just going away. You'll still     have final cut and all of that, but we would like     to see a script, know who you're casting and be     involved in some way. I feel that this is a     completely reasonable request, but I just wasn't     used to working that way, so I went over to     Europe. There's no studio system, so they don't     care about any of that stuff. They're bankers.     And they're happy to be bankers. They put up the     money, you give them the film, and that's what     they care about. That worked very well for me     on Match Point (2005). So I did it again with     Scoop (2006) and Cassandra's Dream (2007).     And I made Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)     in Spain under the same circumstances.     Woody Allen • QUOTE SEARCH Custom Search