"An eminently readable critic...probably the most articulate interpreter of Allen's oeuvre.
—Village Voice

"Only his analyst could know Woody Allen as well as Diane Jacobs..."
—New York Daily News

"Diane Jacobs has quietly become one of the most dependable film critics of the 1980s...Any cinematic friend of Woody's needs to read But We Need The Eggs."
—James Monaco, author of American Films Now and How to Read A Film

"At once the most reasoned and the most readable study of Woody Allen's cinema."
—Peter Cowie, editor of International Film Guide