The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time. Peter Bogdanovich More Quotes by Peter Bogdanovich More Quotes From 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 movierealinspiring There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't. Peter Bogdanovich old-moviehavens Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. Peter Bogdanovich ugliness 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 actorskindpay 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 todaypeoplethinking 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 feelingspeoplethinking 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 criticismtryingdirectors If filmmakers are ignorant of the past, they laborto re-invent the wheel in every picture. You sit and think, 'Well,we're back to 1903 here.' Peter Bogdanovich ignorantpastthinking 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 metsemotiondepth 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 playpeoplethinking During the Hollywood studio system, they looked for people who were unusual. The stars had peculiarities. Peter Bogdanovich whohollywoodstarspeople I could hardly believe that she really existed, that she wasn't a dream. There was something miraculous about Dorothy Stratten. Peter Bogdanovich shesomethingdreambelieve The first time I met Brando was on a street corner. I was 14. He was walking down the street, and I saw him coming, and I thought, 'It's Marlon Brando.' And he was wearing what turned out to be his outfit from 'On the Waterfront,' because he was shooting. Peter Bogdanovich outfitstreetwalkingtime I had been an abject fan of Martin and Lewis when I was a kid. I just thought they were terribly funny. None of their movies captured the kind of chemistry they really had. Peter Bogdanovich moviesthoughtchemistryfunny I prefer a monogamous relationship if I can find one. Peter Bogdanovich preferfindi-canrelationship I certainly had an arrogant streak. And I certainly was defensive in certain cases. Maybe I'm still arrogant, but I try not to be. Peter Bogdanovich maybestilltryarrogant Love is a lot more complicated than people think. Peter Bogdanovich thinklove-islovepeople I don't know how you get to be 40 without having a whole bunch of regrets. Peter Bogdanovich withouthowknowyou 'Jaws' was the first A-list picture that was released like an exploitation picture. They made a lot of money with that picture because they could save a lot of money on advertising. Instead of having a full-page ad in 'The New York Times' for one theater, they had it for 100 theaters. Peter Bogdanovich picturenewadvertisingmoney For a while, all the studios had their art-house divisions, but that went by the by pretty quickly. Now, they're really focusing on these huge blockbusters, spending a fortune on cartoon pictures and comic-strip movies and superhero movies, and they aren't making pictures like 'How Green Was My Valley,' which was an Oscar winner in its day. Peter Bogdanovich picturesdaywinnergreen
