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

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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 do not know what else to do. They do not have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money. - Peter Bogdanovich

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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

But at a certain point, and I do not really know... people have asked me this. I do not 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