What life is about, why we are here, why it is so painful, relationships between a human being and his existence and human loneliness - that never gets resolved, and so it’s of constant interest to me. I’m cursed with the clown’s approach to it, so I have to approach it in a comic way. I wish I was born a gifted and great tragedian, but I wasn’t.
- Woody Allen, on PBS American Masters
