Stephen Tennenbaum

0:22Steven, thank you very much. You're quite welcome. I'm happy to do it. Yeah, well congratulations on the nomination for one. Thank you very much. It's a blast, it really is. Yeah, you don't expect the Woody Allen movies to get nominated. Actually... Or do you from the inside circle perhaps? Three years ago we won a Golden Globe for Vicki Kristina Basima. Right. This year... It's a lot of hoopla. Yeah, we got a nomination for a Golden Globe and then this. All the blogs were saying we'd get it. I guess never want to say yes because then you're disappointed and it doesn't happen. But it's really great. It's just... I've had a long career as I said to you a few minutes ago. This is my fifth career and as I call it a long and winding road and it's just a blast.

1:13It really is. So what brought you into the film industry then? It really was an evolution. I started in the music business and then clients drifted into film and television and I guess I drifted with them and got to work closer and closer with Woody and I was so involved in his movies already that one day cursed with the Jade Scorpion he said, you got to start producing. You speak very good English. No, not really. No, you do. How long have you been dating Picasso? God, I just say that. Did you know he knocked out of the park with this one?

1:59Not from first reading the script, no. I had some doubts as did Lettie, who produces with me. We were very concerned that young people wouldn't know who some of the characters were. Back in the 20s and what not, Hemingway, yes, Salvatore, Dali probably, but Gertrude Stein or Manray or some of the other characters and it might not work so well if young people don't know who Owen was back living this dream life with but it turned out that it didn't matter. They got the idea and it worked. Now this is a writer, Gil, yes, Gil, Gilpender, Gilpender.

2:47Hemingway. Hemingway? You like my book. Light? I loved all your work. Yes, it was a good book because it was an honest book. I heard the idea for Midnight Paris came up a few years ago and then there were some budgeting issues that kind of held it off so it's not as new. We were going to, originally the script was written to be shot in 2006. It was budgeted for Paris. Shooting in Paris was always a dream of Woody's. It was just too far out of sight and we're all very conscious including Woody that the cost of his films do not get out of sight.

3:33They're not $100 million box office pictures although this one I think it's $156 or $157 million now around the world. It's the largest grossing movie he's ever had here as well as worldwide. That's amazing. It's really been just a fantastic, a fantastic run. Yes, she's beautiful but it's a subtle beauty and implied sensuality. What is your first impression of Adriana? Exceptionally lovely. We do something called Five Questions. Five quick questions. One more answers. Ready? Five quick questions and one way.

4:19Yes. Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald? Hemingway. Leninger McCartney. Film you've made that you're most proud of? Midnight in Paris. Film that made you want to get into movies? Ah, that's a tough one. I think the first one I ever saw. Which is what? See here Private Hargroof. Robert Walker and I forget who the female lead was. Boy, I was a little boy, lived in the Bronx. My parents took me to the Low East Paradise Theatre and it was quite an experience. I always remembered it. Nice. And in one word, Midnight in Paris. Midnight in Paris.

5:04In one word. It's a blast. Thank you very much. You're quite welcome. Really appreciate it. Okay.