Peter Bogdanovich famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.
-- Peter Bogdanovich

#Real #Cutting #Mtv
There are no â€œoldâ€ movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.
-- Peter Bogdanovich

#Old Movie
Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.
-- Peter Bogdanovich

#Ugliness
There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.
-- Peter Bogdanovich

#Trying #Criticism #Want
The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.
-- Peter Bogdanovich

#Successful #Judging #Criteria
I think one of the reasons younger people don't like older films, films made say before the '60s, is that they've never seen them on a big screen, ever. If you don't see a film on a big screen, you haven't really seen it. You've seen a version of it, but you haven't seen it. That's my feeling, but I'm old-fashioned.
-- Peter Bogdanovich

#Thinking #People #Feelings
Cher is one of the most talented women I've ever met. She's got depth and emotion that haven't even been touched.
-- Peter Bogdanovich

#Depth #Emotion #Mets
The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.
-- Peter Bogdanovich

#Actors #Pay #Kind
One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.
-- Peter Bogdanovich

#Thinking #People #Today
But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
-- Peter Bogdanovich

#Thinking #Play #People

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