Woody Allen denies: "I never said I'm retiring"

(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 19 SEPT - Woody Allen denies: "I never said that I am retiring".

After an interview with a Spanish newspaper that he toured the world yesterday, the 86-year-old American director has released an official clarification.

"He didn't say that he is retiring, nor did he say that he is writing another novel. He said he was thinking of not making films because making films that go straight or very fast instreaming doesn't enjoy him, since he's someone who loves experience of cinema at cinema ".

The statement adds that Woody "has no plans to retire at the moment and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new film, which will be the 50th of his career".

The misunderstanding seems to have arisen from a sentence by the director to the newspaper 'LaVanguardia'

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Speaking of the film 'Wasp 22', Woody would have said: "My idea, in principle, is to stop making films and concentrate on writing".

It is not the first time that Woody Allen has expressed such thoughts.

At the end of June, in a video conversation on Instagram with Alec Baldwin, the director said that he didn't like making films "now that they no longer come out in theaters".

The actor's goal had then been the promotion of 'Zero Gravity', the latest collection of short stories published in the US by Skyhorse, a publishing house specializing in "difficult" authors.

Composed of passages written years ago for the weekly 'New Yorker' and during the pandemic, the volume in Italy came out with "La Navedi Teseo",

but in the United States he had been virtually ignored.

More or less like 'Rifkin's Festival', the film n.

49, which had made a splash at the end of January during a light presence in the American halls.

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