Woody Allen says he doesn’t care ‘at all’ about his own legacy

The new film by Woody Allen, Lucky Stroke in Parishits Brazilian cinemas on Thursday, the 19th. Production number 50 could be the filmmaker’s last, who confessed in an interview with S.Paulo Newspaper that it is “tedious to finance a film”.

Lucky Stroke in Paris is the director’s first feature film in French. Since he was accused by his daughter Dylan Farrow of sexual abuse, still in 1992, his relationship with New York was shaken. Making films with the help of the United States industry became even more difficult for Allen after the MeToo movement, which revived accusations of Farrow against him.

Although the investigation into his case was closed in 1993, Dylan continues to claim that she was abused by her own father. A 2021 documentary that features accounts of Mia Farrow and it also reinforces the complaint.

“If someone comes along with enough money to make a movie, then I’ll make another movie. But I’m not going to go out and look for it. It’s tedious to finance a movie, you have to go to a lot of lunches and meetings and talk to people,” he argued. “I’ve done it a lot of times, and I don’t want to do it anymore.”

If someone comes along somewhere and says, ‘We love your films, we want to sponsor another one of your films,’ I might do another one, but other than that I’d be quite happy just writing for the theater or trying to write prose.

The director behind films like Neurotic Groom, Nervous Bride (1977) and Manhattan (1979) demonstrated that he does not care about negative attention about himself. He married Soon-Yi Previnanother daughter of Mia Farrowin 1997. Although they have an age difference of almost 35 years, they maintain a relationship to this day.

I’m not a legacy person. Whenever I make a film, I never look at it again. I made my first film in 1968 and I’ve never looked at it again. Once I’m done with my films, I don’t care about them anymore. And I’m 88 years old, I’ll be dead soon, so I don’t care about my legacy at all, it means nothing to me.

“If when I die they take my films and throw them in the ocean or burn them, I don’t care. I’m dead,” he reflected. “When you’re dead, nothing matters. A legacy is a fantasy that people have, it’s like religious people believing in an afterlife. But you don’t exist, so who cares about my films? I don’t.”