The above quote by Woody Allen relates to his reflection on women and, I would add, also represents his self-projection on women in his films, especially Jasmine in one of his major films, Blue Jasmine (2013).

In 1993, Tim Carroll published Allen's biography bearing the title Woody and his Women, which attempts to unravel Allen's obsessive attitude to women. Allen has recurrently been criticized for his complicated relationships with women in his films, above all when they play the central character. Just mentioning the title of a recent article – ‘“It's complicated really”: Women in the Films of Woody Allen’ by Joanna Rapf – suffices to highlight the overall tendency in the ongoing discussion on representations of women in Allen's work. According to Rapf, the complication finds its source in his films’ self-referentiality and self-reflexivity, which either encapsulates women in a male gaze or allows for a feminist challenge to be conceived. The eponymous heroine of one of his later films, Blue Jasmine, is a case in point, as she incarnates this ambivalence. Jasmine represents the contemporary female character in turmoil, as signified by her fragmented solitary talking on the plane in the film's opening scene. In turmoil and in transit, between New York and San Francisco, is a condition that seems to fit the description of Jasmine's identity, as she is first seen going West (to San Francisco) to start a new life.