[Woody Allen in an Interview with France 24 (2010)]
I got conscious at a very young age. But it becomes increasingly more evident as you get older. You start to think when you are younger, how important everything is and how things have to go right, and your job, your career, your life, and your choices and all that. And then after a while you start to realize that - I am taking the big picture here - that eventually you die, and eventually the sun burns out, and the earth is gone. And eventually all the stars and all the planets, the entire universe, goes, disappears and nothing is left at all, nothing Shakespeare or Beethoven or you know all gone, Michelangelo gone. And you think to yourself, it is a lot of noise and sound and fury and where is it going? not going anyplace Now, you can’t actually live your life like that because if you do you just sit there and, why do anything, why get up in the morning and do anything so I think it’s the job of the artist to try and figure out, knowing that it's true, not giving yourself a fake heaven, hell and none sense. But knowing the worst. figure out even knowing the worst, why it's still worth wile. And this is a challenge to artist all the time, trying to figure it out