I make films. I make people laugh. Marriage, family, and a sense of community are evident in Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, Broadway Danny Rose, Another Woman, September, Oedipus Wrecks, and Shadows and Fog. A baby represents hope in Hannah, Another Woman, and Shadows and Fog. In the latter, the baby causes the clown to rethink his life and propose to Irmy.
Family is seen as more important than art.
This was not always so. In Manhattan, when Ike lists the things that make life worth living, he does not mention his son. Allen received a complaint from a woman on this omission, recalls Allen's biographer Eric Lax. I used to think, 'I've got big plans for myself. Only after being around Mia have I seen that children are so meaningful to people in helping to define their lives.