Peter 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. A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

Joe Pesci

#6. 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

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

Peter Bogdanovich

#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. Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Minna Antrim

#10. 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

#11. I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn't some faction archetype. But the Tris who's trying as hard as she can to destroy herself ... I can't love her.

Anonymous

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

Peter Bogdanovich

#13. She said that sometimes you had to be brave enough to point your life in a new direction.

Liane Moriarty

#14. You wanna look pretty though, in my video

Ol' Dirty Bastard

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Every positive value has its price in negative terms ... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Pablo Picasso

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.

Glen Campbell

#21. I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

Mohsin Hamid

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

Peter Bogdanovich