Woody Allen wasn’t always wary of the press.
In a piece in The New Yorker about the hundreds of interviews that writer John McPhee has done over the course of his career, McPhee notes that none of his subjects was “simpler or more agreeable than Woody Allen.”
“He was 27 years old, and volunteered that he was a ‘latent heterosexual.’ He said he strongly wished to return to the womb — ‘anybody’s.’ I described him in the piece as ‘a flatheaded, redheaded lemur with closely bitten fingernails and a sports jacket.’ He spoke of people who ‘perspire audibly.’ He said his father had been a factory worker but was replaced by a small gadget. His mother bought one.”