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Woody Allen is walking back the claims that he is planning to retire.
A representative for the director, 86, released a statement Monday clarifying what he said in an interview with Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia where he was quoted as saying, 'My idea, in principle, is not to make more movies and focus on writing.'
'Woody Allen never said he was retiring, nor did he say he was writing another novel.
He said he was thinking about not making films as making films that go straight or very quickly to streaming platforms is not so enjoyable for him, as he is a great lover of the cinema experience,' the statement read.
Not retiring: Woody Allen, 86, has denied he is retiring from filmmaking after the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia reported him as saying, 'My idea, in principle, is not to make more movies and focus on writing'; Seen in 2019 in San Sebastian, Spain
'Currently, he has no intention of retiring and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new movie, which will be the 50th.'
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The director, who has denied sexual abuse allegations lodged against him by his daughter Dylan Farrow, is currently at work on his 50th and final film, titled Wasp 22. The movie, which he compared to his late-career work Match Point, is being filmed entirely in French.
The writer and director claimed the plot would be ‘exciting, dramatic and also very sinister' and described is as something similar to the thriller Match Point, which won the Goya award for Best European Film in 2006.
Statement: A representative for Allen released a statement that said he 'was thinking about not making films as making films that go straight or very quickly to streaming platforms is not so enjoyable for him'
In a live-streamed conversation on Instagram from June with actor Alec Baldwin — who has appeared in several of his films — the embattled writer and director alluded to his career pivot, saying 'the thrill is gone' due to a decline in the theater-going experience.
'A lot of the thrill is gone, the director admitted.
'Now you do a movie, and you get a couple of weeks in a movie house, and then it goes to streaming or pay-per-view. It's not the same. It's not as enjoyable to me.'
The Blue Jasmine director has chosen to work in Europe in recent years due to falling support in the US amid allegations of abuse in the #MeToo era.
Family: Woody and Mia Farrow with daughter Dylan and son Ronan Farrow in New York, 1988.
Allen and Farrow were together for more than a decade and made 13 films together before their split
Abuse allegations: Allen was accused of sexually abusing his daughter Dylan when she was seven years old.
He has denied the charges, but Dylan has never recanted her story
His former partner, Mia Farrow, accused him of sexually abusing his adopted daughter Dylan in 1992, when she was seven. Allen had already shocked the public when it became known he had begun a romantic relationship with Farrow's then 17-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn.
Farrow and Allen were together for more than a decade, from 1980 to 1992 and made 13 films together before he and the Hannah And Her Sisters star split after she learned of his relationship with Previn.
The director has always denied the abuse allegations, and no charges were ever brought against him, though Dylan, 37, has stuck by her abuse claims.
Marriage: Allen began a relationship with Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn when she was still in her teens.
They went public with the relationship when she was 17. They married in 1997 and adopted two children; seen in August 2021 in NYC
He and Farrow had a total of three children together, Moses, 44, whom they adopted. Investigative journalist Ronan Farrow, 34, is their biological child.
Soon-Yi and Allen married in 1997 and have adopted two children together.
When the abuse allegations first came to the fore, they didn't seem to hurt Allen's career.
Top actors, including Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates continued to work on his films.
Comedy: Allen began as a comedy writer in the 1960s.
He earned a Grammy for his self-titled album Woody Allen in 1964. His directorial debut was in 1966's What's Up Tiger Lily, a spy spoof in which he also acted
Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg in 1935 in New York City and raised in Brooklyn. He grew up with a passion for baseball, but realized he was funny and began earning money by selling jokes for an agent who would sell them to newspaper columnists.
The writer legally changed his name to Heywood Allen at age 17, but later decided to go by Woody.
Allen began his career as a comedy writer in the 1950s and 60s.
He made his directorial debut in 1966 with What's Up Tiger Lily, a spy spoof in which he also acted.
Annie Hall: Allen won three Oscars for Annie Hall (pictured): Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
Diane Keaton won the Academy Award for Best Actress
He won a Grammy for his comedy record Woody Allen in 1964.
The writer and director turned away from slapstick comedies to more adult themes in the 1970s and won three Oscars for Annie Hall: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
The film was a romantic comedy about a divorced man and his tumultuous relationship with an aspiring nightclub singer.
Keaton, his former girlfriend, earned the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as the title character.
Top actors: Allegations that he sexually abused his daughter have not kept top actors, including Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates, from working on his films
In total, Allen has received a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay.
In 1979, he released Manhattan, costarring Mariel Hemingway and Keaton. The film was about a divorced television writer dating a 17-year-old girl.
The film was nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar, and Hemingway earned a Best Supporting Actress nod.
Accolades: Among his many accolades, Allen has received a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay
Manhattan: Allen starred as a divorced television writer dating a 17-year-old in Manhattan. In her memoir, Out Came the Sun, Mariel Hemingway claimed she declined a trip to Paris with Allen when it was clear she would not have a separate room
In her memoir, memek bernanah Out Came the Sun, Hemingway claimed the director invited her to Paris once she turned 18, two years after they had worked on Manhattan.
'Our relationship was platonic, but I started to see that he had a kind of crush on me, though I dismissed it as the kind of thing that seemed to happen any time middle-aged men got around young women.'
The actress said she turned down the trip once she realized she would not be getting her own room.
Oscar: Mira Sorvino won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as a ditzy porn star and prostitute who is the mother of Allen's adopted son in Mighty Aphrodite (pictured)
Tainted: Sorvino, 54, has claimed the experience is 'tainted' for her and she should have denounced Allen following allegations he sexually abused his daughter; still from Mighty Aphrodite
Mira Sorvino won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as ditzy porn star and prostitute who is the birth mother of the adopted son on Allen's character in Mighty Aphrodite.
In hindsight, Sorvino, 54, claimed the experience tainted her career, revealing on the WTF podcast in March she 'should have denounced' the director following the sexual abuse allegations.
'I didn't look deep enough to actually educate myself to really make an educated opinion at the time.
It's not an excuse.... it ruins Mighty Aphrodite for me, ruins my Oscar, ruins that start of my career, because I treasured it for years and then it's like, I should have denounced him. I should have known it then.'
A representative for the director, 86, released a statement Monday clarifying what he said in an interview with Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia where he was quoted as saying, 'My idea, in principle, is not to make more movies and focus on writing.'
'Woody Allen never said he was retiring, nor did he say he was writing another novel.
He said he was thinking about not making films as making films that go straight or very quickly to streaming platforms is not so enjoyable for him, as he is a great lover of the cinema experience,' the statement read.
Not retiring: Woody Allen, 86, has denied he is retiring from filmmaking after the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia reported him as saying, 'My idea, in principle, is not to make more movies and focus on writing'; Seen in 2019 in San Sebastian, Spain
'Currently, he has no intention of retiring and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new movie, which will be the 50th.'
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Share this article
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The director, who has denied sexual abuse allegations lodged against him by his daughter Dylan Farrow, is currently at work on his 50th and final film, titled Wasp 22. The movie, which he compared to his late-career work Match Point, is being filmed entirely in French.
The writer and director claimed the plot would be ‘exciting, dramatic and also very sinister' and described is as something similar to the thriller Match Point, which won the Goya award for Best European Film in 2006.
Statement: A representative for Allen released a statement that said he 'was thinking about not making films as making films that go straight or very quickly to streaming platforms is not so enjoyable for him'
In a live-streamed conversation on Instagram from June with actor Alec Baldwin — who has appeared in several of his films — the embattled writer and director alluded to his career pivot, saying 'the thrill is gone' due to a decline in the theater-going experience.
'A lot of the thrill is gone, the director admitted.
'Now you do a movie, and you get a couple of weeks in a movie house, and then it goes to streaming or pay-per-view. It's not the same. It's not as enjoyable to me.'
The Blue Jasmine director has chosen to work in Europe in recent years due to falling support in the US amid allegations of abuse in the #MeToo era.
Family: Woody and Mia Farrow with daughter Dylan and son Ronan Farrow in New York, 1988.
Allen and Farrow were together for more than a decade and made 13 films together before their split
Abuse allegations: Allen was accused of sexually abusing his daughter Dylan when she was seven years old.
He has denied the charges, but Dylan has never recanted her story
His former partner, Mia Farrow, accused him of sexually abusing his adopted daughter Dylan in 1992, when she was seven. Allen had already shocked the public when it became known he had begun a romantic relationship with Farrow's then 17-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn.
Farrow and Allen were together for more than a decade, from 1980 to 1992 and made 13 films together before he and the Hannah And Her Sisters star split after she learned of his relationship with Previn.
The director has always denied the abuse allegations, and no charges were ever brought against him, though Dylan, 37, has stuck by her abuse claims.
Marriage: Allen began a relationship with Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn when she was still in her teens.
They went public with the relationship when she was 17. They married in 1997 and adopted two children; seen in August 2021 in NYC
He and Farrow had a total of three children together, Moses, 44, whom they adopted. Investigative journalist Ronan Farrow, 34, is their biological child.
Soon-Yi and Allen married in 1997 and have adopted two children together.
When the abuse allegations first came to the fore, they didn't seem to hurt Allen's career.
Top actors, including Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates continued to work on his films.
Comedy: Allen began as a comedy writer in the 1960s.
He earned a Grammy for his self-titled album Woody Allen in 1964. His directorial debut was in 1966's What's Up Tiger Lily, a spy spoof in which he also acted
Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg in 1935 in New York City and raised in Brooklyn. He grew up with a passion for baseball, but realized he was funny and began earning money by selling jokes for an agent who would sell them to newspaper columnists.
The writer legally changed his name to Heywood Allen at age 17, but later decided to go by Woody.
Allen began his career as a comedy writer in the 1950s and 60s.
He made his directorial debut in 1966 with What's Up Tiger Lily, a spy spoof in which he also acted.
Annie Hall: Allen won three Oscars for Annie Hall (pictured): Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
Diane Keaton won the Academy Award for Best Actress
He won a Grammy for his comedy record Woody Allen in 1964.
The writer and director turned away from slapstick comedies to more adult themes in the 1970s and won three Oscars for Annie Hall: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
The film was a romantic comedy about a divorced man and his tumultuous relationship with an aspiring nightclub singer.
Keaton, his former girlfriend, earned the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as the title character.
Top actors: Allegations that he sexually abused his daughter have not kept top actors, including Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates, from working on his films
In total, Allen has received a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay.
In 1979, he released Manhattan, costarring Mariel Hemingway and Keaton. The film was about a divorced television writer dating a 17-year-old girl.
The film was nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar, and Hemingway earned a Best Supporting Actress nod.
Accolades: Among his many accolades, Allen has received a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay
Manhattan: Allen starred as a divorced television writer dating a 17-year-old in Manhattan. In her memoir, Out Came the Sun, Mariel Hemingway claimed she declined a trip to Paris with Allen when it was clear she would not have a separate room
In her memoir, memek bernanah Out Came the Sun, Hemingway claimed the director invited her to Paris once she turned 18, two years after they had worked on Manhattan.
'Our relationship was platonic, but I started to see that he had a kind of crush on me, though I dismissed it as the kind of thing that seemed to happen any time middle-aged men got around young women.'
The actress said she turned down the trip once she realized she would not be getting her own room.
Oscar: Mira Sorvino won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as a ditzy porn star and prostitute who is the mother of Allen's adopted son in Mighty Aphrodite (pictured)
Tainted: Sorvino, 54, has claimed the experience is 'tainted' for her and she should have denounced Allen following allegations he sexually abused his daughter; still from Mighty Aphrodite
Mira Sorvino won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as ditzy porn star and prostitute who is the birth mother of the adopted son on Allen's character in Mighty Aphrodite.
In hindsight, Sorvino, 54, claimed the experience tainted her career, revealing on the WTF podcast in March she 'should have denounced' the director following the sexual abuse allegations.
'I didn't look deep enough to actually educate myself to really make an educated opinion at the time.
It's not an excuse.... it ruins Mighty Aphrodite for me, ruins my Oscar, ruins that start of my career, because I treasured it for years and then it's like, I should have denounced him. I should have known it then.'