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, ev…

- Peter Bogdanovich

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

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

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

- 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 e…

- Peter Bogdanovich

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

- Peter Bogdanovich

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 …

- Peter Bogdanovich

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

- Peter Bogdanovich

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…

- Peter Bogdanovich