Peter Bogdanovich

Director

1939-07-30

Quotes by Peter Bogdanovich

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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