{"id":932,"date":"2007-08-14T23:02:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T22:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/14\/woody-allen-on-bergman\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T23:02:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T22:02:02","slug":"woody-allen-on-bergman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/08\/14\/woody-allen-on-bergman\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Allen on Bergman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000005\/\" title=\"Bergman\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bergman.jpg\" title=\"Bergman\" alt=\"Bergman\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000095\/\" title=\"Woody Allen\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/woody.jpeg\" title=\"Woody Allen\" alt=\"Woody Allen\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>In recent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_york_times\">New York Times<\/a> article, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woody_allen\"><strong>Woody Allen<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/12\/movies\/12alle.html?ref=movies\">pays tribute<\/a> to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingmar_Bergman\">Ingmar Bergman<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because I sang his praises so enthusiastically over the decades, when he died many newspapers and magazines called me for comments or interviews.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>As if I had anything of real value to add to the grim news besides once again simply extolling his greatness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>How had he influenced me, they asked? He couldn\u2019t have influenced me, I said, he was a genius and I am not a genius and genius cannot be learned or its magic passed on.<\/p>\n<p>When Bergman emerged in the New York art houses as a great filmmaker, I was a young comedy writer and nightclub comic. Can one\u2019s work be influenced by Groucho Marx and Ingmar Bergman?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>But I did manage to absorb one thing from him, a thing not dependent on genius or even talent but something that can actually be learned and developed. I am talking about what is often very loosely called a work ethic but is really plain discipline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/12\/movies\/12alle.html?ref=movies\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000095\/\">Woody Allen at the IMDb<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingmar_Bergman\">Find out more about Ingmar Bergman at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent New York Times article, Woody Allen pays tribute to Ingmar Bergman: Because I sang his praises so enthusiastically over the decades, when he died many newspapers and magazines called me for comments or interviews. As if I had anything of real value to add to the grim news besides once again simply extolling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}