44 Quotes by Peter Bogdanovich

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.

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

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

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.'

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.

There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven’t.

Cher is one of the most talented women I’ve ever met. She’s got depth and emotion that haven’t even been touched.

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.