At one point in his recent interview with Bari Weiss of The Free Press , Woody Allen insisted that his works were, at best, weakly autobiographical.
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“The characters in my movies , yes, have certain traits and certain obsessions that I have. But in life , they’re within normal bounds, they’re in rational bounds,” Allen told Weiss. “The characters in the movies are hugely exaggerated because I’m trying to make them funny and preposterous, and put them in situations that are dramatic and farcical.” He dismissively says that viewers note that a character of his in a movie drives a car, and that he drives a car in life, so he is given the reputation of being a