“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsKindPlayWould BeAbleCertainRolesNotionGreedNaive Author: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.” PeopleKnowsRealStoriesFilmEasyInspiringCuttingFilmmakerMovieGrammarMtvMovie Director Author: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.” PeopleThinkingToday Author:Peter Bogdanovich
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingMadeReasonFeelingsBigsFilmHavensScreensVersionsOld FashionedBig Screen Author:Peter Bogdanovich
