Quotes by Peter Bogdanovich - Page 1

Drama is easy. Comedy's hard.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Comedy
Drama
Easy
Comedy Easy Hard
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Comedy has to be built carefully.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Carefully
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I've stopped caring what people think.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Caring
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Love is a lot more complicated than people think.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Complicated
Love Is
Love Love Is People
Love People More
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I prefer a monogamous relationship if I can find one.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Relationship
Monogamous Relationship
Prefer
Monogamous
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The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Criteria
Judging
Successful
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I don't know how you get to be 40 without having a whole bunch of regrets.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Bunch
Regrets
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Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
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There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Havens
Old Movie
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During the Hollywood studio system, they looked for people who were unusual. The stars had peculiarities.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Hollywood
Stars
Unusual
Looked
Studio
Studio System
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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 / Film Director
Depth
Emotion
Mets
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I loved Keaton. In fact, when I made the chase sequence in 'What's Up, Doc,' I said, 'This is a Buster Keaton chase.'
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Sequence
Buster
Chase
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I started acting in 'The Sopranos' around 1999 and 2000. I did that for six years. That was quite a job, and I loved it.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Sopranos
The Sopranos
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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 / Film Director
People
Thinking
Today
Pictures
Wanting
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I could hardly believe that she really existed, that she wasn't a dream. There was something miraculous about Dorothy Stratten.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Dream
Miraculous
Dorothy
Existed
Hardly
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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 / Film Director
Arrogant
Cases
Certainly
Streak
Defensive
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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 / Film Director
Ignorant
Past
Thinking
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Marlon Brando changed everything for actors. After him, everyone wanted to be Marlon. No one wanted to be a type: they all wanted to display versatility in every role.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Brando
Display
Versatility
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When I was younger, all my friends were older - John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. I loved talking to those people.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Hawks
Hitchcock
Jimmy
Jimmy Stewart
All My Friends
Ford
Grant
Welles
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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 / Film Director
Captured
Chemistry
Abject
Fan
Terribly
Lewis
None
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I was offered 'Popeye,' which Robert Altman made. They offered me $2 million to direct that, which was good money. I wasn't interested in it. I don't like that kind of movie.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Direct
Popeye
Good Money Me
Million
Offered
Robert
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I think 'Paper Moon' is a comedy-drama. 'What's Up, Doc?' was the most severe comedy, but my favorite film of my own is 'They All Laughed,' which is a kind of bittersweet comedy.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Bittersweet
Comedy
Laughed
Moon
Paper
Severe
Favorite
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'Mask' wasn't the version that I wanted when it was originally released. It made money, but it would have made a lot more money. My version was a lot less depressing - tragic, but a lot less depressing.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Depressing
Mask
Tragic
Originally
Released
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My father, who was a good deal older than my mother, had basically grown up with silent films; sound didn't arrive until he was 30 years old. So he took me to see silent pictures at MoMA when I was 5 or 6 years old.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Silent
Good Mother Me
Arrive
Good Deal
Good Father Me
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I direct as an actor. Many times, I will say, 'Let me try this.' And I'll walk the scene through and see what I can tell the actor about it. I don't know what to tell him until I've actually tried it and seen what the problem is.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Direct
Scene
Walk Me Will
Me Will See
Walk
Tried
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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 / Film Director
Actors
Clue
Kind
Outrageous
Pay
Studios
Except
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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 / Film Director
Certain
Greed
Notion
People
Play
Thinking
Me People Know
Asked
Certain Point
Directed
Exactly
Exactly What
Towards
Point
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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 / Film Director
Brando
First Time
Shooting
Corner
Street
Wearing
Met
Outfit
Street Corner
Waterfront
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Comedy is the hardest thing to get right. I remember a joke we did in 'What's Up, Doc?' that didn't get a single laugh. So we moved the shot a foot-and-a-half to one side, and all of a sudden, the laugh was there. It drives you crazy; the balance is so delicate.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Delicate
Hardest Thing
Drives
Sudden
The Hardest Thing
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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 / Film Director
Inspiring
Movie
Cutting
Grammar
Mtv
Real
Movies People Real
Younger
Coming
Commercials
Cut
No Sense
Real Sense
Younger People
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The end of the studio system signalled the end of the great screen stars. They were the sort of actors who brought their own charismatic personas to each role they played. Audiences felt as if they knew them immediately every time they watched one of their movies.
Peter Bogdanovich / Film Director
Charismatic
Time Great Movies
Audiences
Studio System
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'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 / Film Director
New York
Advertising
Exploitation
New York Times
Theater
Picture
Ad
Instead
Jaws
Released
Save
York
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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 / Film Director
Criticism
Directors
Trying
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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 / Film Director
Feelings
People
Thinking
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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 / Film Director
Cartoon
Green
Spending
Studios
Superhero
Blockbusters
Divisions
Focusing
Oscar
Pictures
Quickly
Valley
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