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"Woody Allen has discussed his frequent use of unexplained magic in his movies. Allen&amp;#039;s films have long featured supernatural elements, including Alice&amp;#039;s plot revolving around personality-changing herbs, and characters defying gravity by dancing in air in Everyone Says I Love You.   Discussing magic in a recent interview, the four-time Oscar winner said he feels no need to explain the supernatural elements in his work. &amp;quot;Years ago, I made a film called The Purple Rose of Cairo, and I said, &amp;#039;The people step off the screen and come out into the audience and she interacts with them; she has an affair with one of them,&amp;quot; he recalled, reports SF Gate.  &amp;quot;[One could ask,] &amp;#039;Well, how do they step off the screen? I don&amp;#039;t understand&amp;#039;. Now, I don&amp;#039;t know. I can&amp;#039;t answer that. But I did it, and it worked just fine. Nobody questioned it.&amp;quot; Allen went on to say: &amp;quot;And the same way in Midnight in Paris. I felt the guy got in a car and he drove to a house and he got out and it was 50 years earlier. I didn&amp;#039;t want to think to myself, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;ve got to justify this. How is that possible?&amp;#039; And if you don&amp;#039;t think about it, it frees you.&amp;quot; The filmmaker also spoke of taking a similar approach to his new film To Rome with Love, which features Alec Baldwin as a character who is only visible to some.   &amp;quot;When I was doing Alec Baldwin&amp;#039;s story, I was thinking, &amp;#039;He does this and he does that because I want him to do it&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; he commented. &amp;quot;And I don&amp;#039;t really know if Jesse [Eisenberg&amp;#039;s character is] in Alec&amp;#039;s mind or Alec&amp;#039;s in Jesse&amp;#039;s mind or they alternate, and I didn&amp;#039;t think anybody would care.  &amp;quot;If the scenes are effective and they&amp;#039;re either funny or engaging in some way and the performers are good, no one will ask those questions.&amp;quot; Allen previously expressed annoyance at Scarlett Johansson, Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow being refereed to as his muses in the media. To Rome with Love is now playing in US cinemas on limited release. Watch a trailer for To Rome with Love below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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