Peter Bogdanovich

“Pictures are for entertainment, and the better the entertainment, the better the picture.”

“It's the stuff that's not in the script that makes a movie.”

“Orson Welles was my hero. He was a great artist, a great man.”

“My theory is that if you look confident, you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.”

“Every film is a documentary of its own making.”

“The end of a movie is very important. It's the last thing you see.”

“You can't learn to be a director in a school. You learn it on the set.”

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”

“I've always been drawn to the past. I'm a nostalgia freak.”

“You can't be a director without a point of view.”

“Making a film is like a military operation.”

“Directing is a terrible, lonely job. It's like being a lighthouse keeper.”

“The most important thing for a director is to have a good story to tell.”

“The hardest thing is to be simple.”

“The whole point of movies is to be able to go into a dream state.”

“Style is the personality of the director.”

“I'm a movie-maker, not a messiah.”

“The best movies are the ones that are personal.”

“Actors are the jewels of the cinema.”

“The audience is the final collaborator.”