[gopwinsin04]

It's called the free market Woody! Enjoy film exile in rainy London town...

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Heaven forfend that the investors know on what they're throwing their money away!

Woody, I still love "Bananas" and "Take the Money and Run", but please shut up and go away now. You're a crashing bore.

[trisham]

Woody has become increasingly strange and perverted.

[DamascusRoad]

"I don't let people read the scripts."

Judging from the quality of his most recent films, I would guess the above quote would include the actors.

[reagan_fanatic]

Does England have any Chuck-E-Cheeses he can take the better half to?

[Heyworth]

Woody Allen was widely blamed for killing Orion Pictures, which funded a bunch of his self-indulgent movies and lost money on every one of them.

[softwarecreator]

'I can never work like that. I don't let people read the scripts. I want the money in a brown paper bag and to give them the film a few months later, and that is that.

And they should finance your movie ... why?

[Spok]

"he says he is sick of making movies in Manhattan."

I agree. I'm sick of him making movies, too. (Maybe he should try the Neverland Ranch)

[blueblazes]

Maybe I should move to London if they give out money so freely.....

[ClearCase_guy]

It would be difficult to name a celebrity with a longer track-record of failure. He has produced notable flops for decades, with his (few) successes long, long ago.

[whereasandsoforth]

He's not half the director he use to be. He's Semi-Woody now. But, he does have a point. He comes from the old days when artist control overruled every other concern in film making. His past successes have fed his reputation and his ego. He is above being scrutinized by money people without his experience.

[DoctorMichael]

"I need income to support my lifestyle".

[SF Republican]

The studios actually want to read the script before handing over $100 million dollars, go figure.

[uncitizen]

I did the film in England because it is increasingly difficult to get financing in the United States,' said Allen.

Uh Woody... Maybe if you didn't marry and impregnate your girlfriends 19 year old daughter financiers would be more willing to help you out. Or maybe your movies just suck. Or both.

[af_vet_1981]

Geeky director Woody Allen might be a quintessential New Yorker, but he says he is sick of making movies in Manhattan.

He should be making movies in prison.

[fatnotlazy]

It's too bad about him...very talented many years ago...he just got too weird, professionally and otherwise for my tastes.

But I'm sure he'll find an audience in Europe. They seems to have a tolerance for pedophiles over there.

[PMCarey]

But Woody we love your films! Especially the early, funny ones.

[joylyn]

I'm no fan of Woody's recent films, but he's right about this. Scripts are rewritten by hacks in accordance with what's worked for investors in the past. That's why so many movies are boring, predictable and increasingly trashy.

[joebuck]

"...it is increasingly difficult to get financing in the United States,"

Perhaps that's because none of your movies have been a box office hit since Annie Hall in the late 70's.

[drpix]

It's Bush's fault. If Kerry had won, all would have been well!

[olivia3boys]

Guess I'll be the odd one here: I love Woody Allen films! Just about all of them.

I haven't seen "Melinda and Melinda" yet, but I will, and I'm sure it will be better than "House of Wax" and 90% of the other movies out now. . .