Monday, June 27, 2005
On Woody Allen
Excerpt:
As a filmmaker, I'm not interested in 9/11. Because, if you look at the big picture, the long view of things, it's too small, history overwhelms it. The history of the world is like: he kills me, I kill him. Only with different cosmetics and different castings: so in 2001 some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other. Political questions, if you go back thousands of years, are ephemeral, not important. History is the same thing over and over again.
Spiegel: So, do you think is [sic] sort of useless when someone like Michael Moore makes a documentary with strong political overtones?
Allen: Michael Moore delivered a powerful and successful piece of documentary with Fharenheit [sic] 9/11. But the problem is that most of the people who liked it were people who thought like him. Me for example. But, even Moore didn't manage to influence the other side. We tested that with polls. It's a hopeless case.
I like Woody's films and respect his talent for writing and directing. I disagree with his political views. But it is nice to hear him say that he realizes Moore was preaching to the choir, but didn't recruit any new converts.
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