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Peter Bogdanovich, the celebrated filmmaker and cineaste, pays homage to the golden age of Hollywood with his affectionate tributes to classic cinema and iconic directors. From his breakthrough film "The Last Picture Show" to his documentaries on Orson Welles and John Ford, Bogdanovich's reverence for the art of filmmaking shines through in his meticulous craftsmanship and deep understanding of cinematic history.
"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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"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."

Money, Control, Actor, Actors
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"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."
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"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."

People, Greed, Play
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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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"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."

Movies, People, Film, Grammar
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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."
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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."

People, Today, Wrong
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