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A30 PEOPLE & ARTS
Wednesday 7 June 2017
Diane Keaton talks mom & dad, gratitude ahead of AFI honor

SANDY COHEN more than 80 films so far.
AP Entertainment Writer Beyond acting, Keaton is
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When also a celebrated fash-
Diane Keaton accepts the ion icon (thanks to mom),
American Film Institute’s architecture enthusiast
Life Achievement Award (dad’s influence) and best-
this week, she’ll say it’s all selling author who main-
because of her mom, dad tains active, artistic profiles
and Woody Allen. on Instagram and other
The Oscar-winning actress platforms. Her latest book
credits her parents with in- on building and design,
stilling her creativity and set for release in the fall, is
work ethic, and Allen’s called “The House that Pin-
“Annie Hall” with launch- terest Built.”
ing her career, which has As Keaton prepares to re-
spanned five decades and ceive the AFI award at a

In this Nov. 16, 2016, file photo, Diane Keaton attends the 2016 L’Oreal Women of Worth Awards
in New York
Associated Press

gala tribute in Hollywood and our relationship. And fantasy come true, like the
on Thursday, the 71-year- she just loomed large be- House of the Future at Dis-
old star talked with The As- cause she was — I mean, I neyland. So I was always
sociated Press about her have volumes and volumes compelled by architecture
career, her parents and and volumes of her writing. visually. I just love buildings.
why she wants to take a She never stopped. ... So I love looking at buildings.
cross-country road trip with that’s what I think I got it all I love homes. I love style. I
her dog. from. And my father, too! always did, and that’s be-
The interview has been ed- My father took an acting cause of him.
ited for brevity and clarity. class at age 67! He was run- AP: Is that where your fa-
___ ning for city council and he mous fashion sense comes
AP: You appeared at the was an engineer; he had from?
AFI event when Steve Mar- his own company. They re- Keaton: Fashion was a
tin was honored in 2015. ally needed to work, they huge link between my
How does it feel to be on really needed to. I do, too. mother and I. We never
the receiving end of the I think they were sensitive really quite had a lot of
accolades this time? souls. money in the beginning,
Keaton: More anxious, be- AP: Apart from bringing you right? So we would go to
cause it’s a lot of Diane. ... an Oscar, how significant the Goodwill and Salvation
It’s kind of a surreal experi- was Woody Allen’s “Annie Army. We’d discover the
ence for me. I feel like it’s Hall” to your career? thrift stores, my mother and
the wedding I never had, Keaton: Without that, we I. We would buy some old
or the big gathering I nev- wouldn’t be talking today. fabric and we’d go and
er had, or the retirement I wouldn’t have the honor get some McCall’s pattern
party I never had, or all of experiencing this. Of and then I would say, ‘This
these things that I always course that’s it. That’s the is the best one, mom. You
avoided — the big bash. ticket, called “Annie Hall.” make this.’ So she became
And looking back at your And he wrote it and he di- my first assistant. I want her
life, with an audience? Oh rected it and he starred in it back!
my goodness. So it’s huge and he produced it. It’s not AP: What’s the best thing
for me. It’s really a big possible! Hey, hi! It’s a man about getting older?
event for me and I’m really, named Mr. Woody Allen Keaton: That you see differ-
deeply grateful. who gave me my career. ently. You see life in a totally
AP: You’re definitely not There’s no question. None. different manner because
retiring, with two movies in AP: Where did your interest you understand that there
the works and a book com- in architecture come from? is an end to it more readily,
ing out. How do you juggle Keaton: My father, Jack which makes it more of a
your creative projects? Hall, he was a civil engi- wonder-filled, kind of magi-
Keaton: I have so many neer, and one of our bond- cal, inexplicable experi-
things that I do every day. ing things was going to ence. ... I’m seriously think-
I’m always busy. Both my open houses of tract hous- ing of going across country
parents were very hard- es in the ‘50s. ... They were in America in my car with
working people. You know all dressed up and they had my dog (Emmie), because
my mother, I wrote a book design and nice couches, I’ve never seen anything
about basically my mother and to me, that was like a like it.q