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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.
One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.
The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is becaus... (more Peter Bogdanovich quotes)
Peter studied acting with the legendary Stella Adler when he was in his teens.
His father was Serbian and his mother was Austrian, both immigrants escaping from the nazis.
Peter was with Cybill Shepherd from 1971-1978. He still has a signed photograph from her hanging in his New York City apartment signed "Dear Sven, I wouldn't be here without you." "Sven" is short for "Svengali", a character who, through hypnosis, teaches the eponymo... (more Peter Bogdanovich trivia)
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