With Cafe Society, his 47th film in a 50-year career, set to open the Cannes film festival and a direct-to-Amazon television series on the way, director Woody Allen recently discussed his life and career with The Hollywood Reporter’s Stephen Galloway for a wide-ranging interview that is both guarded and unintentionally revealing. The resulting article is mostly about how Allen has not changed over the decades. The 80-year-old filmmaker admits to living “in a bubble” and claims, convincingly, not to be haunted by the scandals that have plagued him for years. When Galloway asks him if he’s “traumatized” by the criticism of his marriage to Soon-Yi Previn, Allen breezily responds, “Oh, no, not in the slightest.” His disengagement from the world seems almost total. Here’s Allen on literature: “I never enjoyed reading.” Allen on cinema: “There aren’t a lot of films that interest me.” Allen on TV’s most-praised shows: “I don’t watch them.”