Bogdanovich Quotes

#1. As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

Tatum O'Neal

#2. Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

Noah Baumbach

#3. I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#4. I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.

Terry Tempest Williams

#5. 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

#6. The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

Peter Bogdanovich

#7. He bowed. "With respect, Sharum Ka, how are we to get your warriors to the city on the lake to conquer it without boats?" "We will build our own. How hard can it ... " Jayan trailed off, looking at the huge cargo vessels with their intricate rigging. "Put them out!" he cried.

Peter V. Brett

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

Peter Bogdanovich

#11. It's hard to run in a Florida woods, where every square foot not occupied by trees is bristling with thigh-high palmetto spears and nets of entangling skunk vine, but I did my best,

Ransom Riggs

#12. The more you enhance your ability to meditate, the better you will be able to make better decisions and create better harmony either within yourself, at home or at work.

Vishwas Chavan

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.

John Podhoretz

#16. Maggie scoffed. "Denial will not save you when Cupid's arrow find its mark."
"If i see Cupid anywhere in the vicinity, I'm ripping his chubby little arms off." Vanda yanked the door open to Romatech.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#17. 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

#18. Truth will always come to light ...
Words; dedicated to the families of the victims- Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
Day in and day out with the light of the sun -
Night after night with the light of the moon;
Piece by piece, we will come closer to the truth.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#19. If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#20. 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

#21. There are no "old" movies really - only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

Peter Bogdanovich