#film-influence

#film-influence

Isaw Woody Allen onscreen for the first time as a 17-year-old, a senior at an all-girls Catholic school in a small New England town called Riverside. In the middle-class Rhode Island suburb where I was brought up, the type of person Woody Allen plays in Manhattan -a glib, disaffected, neurotic, middle-aged TV writer-did not exist. Or if they did, I had no knowledge of them-and that's probably the way it should be,

"The odd thing about experiencing New York for the first time was that it seemed more like the films than the films themselves."