Peter Bogdanovich Quotes

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

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

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

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

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Peter Bogdanovich Quotes

Type: Director Quotes Category: American Director Quotes Date of Birth: July 30, 1939 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Peter Bogdanovich Related Authors: Woody Allen Spike Lee George Lucas Steven Spielberg James Cameron Quentin Tarantino Stanley Kubrick Francis Ford Coppola Tim Burton	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 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 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 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