For many filmmakers, streaming services like Netflix and Amazon represent the next great creative frontier. Given healthy budgets and carte blanche, these outlets are responsible for providing numerous writers and directors the kind of freedom they can't get at a studio level. Thus, it was with much excitement when it was announced earlier this year that Amazon had landed Woody Allen to write and direct a series for them. But here's the thing: Allen is one of the writer/directors in Hollywood who gets to do whatever he wants anyway, and he admits he had to be persuaded to take the Amazon deal, but he's not sure it was the right thing to do.
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"This was a catastrophic mistake for me. I'm struggling with it," he told a Cannes press conference (via USA Today). "I never should have gotten into it. I thought it would be really easy, to do six half-hours. I thought it...
