Woody Allen on First TV Series: "It Was Much Harder Work Than a Movie"

The acclaimed film director talked to THR at the New York premiere of Amazon's 'Crisis in Six Scenes' about whether he'll make more small-screen content and why he's continued to collaborate with the Jeff Bezos-led company, the Hollywood Reporter says.

When Woody Allen first started working on his first TV series, an Amazon project announced in January of 2015, the acclaimed film director joked that he'd made a "catastrophic mistake."

“I should never have gotten into it,” he said at a Cannes press conference for his film Irrational Man, adding that he was really struggling with the project, which was already proving to be more difficult than he thought it would be.

“I thought it would be a cinch. One half hour and then another half hour. But it’s not! It’s very, very hard, and I just hope that I don’t disappoint Amazon,” he said at the time. “I don’t watch any of those television series, so I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m floundering. I expect this to be a cosmic embarrassment.”