Peter_Bogdanovich

Well, I loved being a part of that show. It was very invigorating, challenging and exciting. David Chase is a genius. He created an extraordinary show. I felt privileged to be a part of it.

I'd like to get away from the comic books and the cartoons. And get back to making pictures about people. The sad thing about the state of American movies today is that in the Golden Age of Movies - from 1921-1962, about, a convenient 50 years - there were adults making films for adults, despite the production code. Now we have adults making films for teenagers (male teenagers, mainly).

I think it's a sad state of affairs, frankly.

Well, I think there's no question that since THE SOPRANOS - THE SOPRANOS raised the bar quite high. There's been a number of shows, series, after that that I don't think would've happened without the SOPRANOS, like BREAKING BAD, or MAD MEN, for example.

And I think there's more creativity in series television than there is in most movies.

There's no mileage left for me, but that doesn't mean the public feels the same way. Younger people seem to like those superhero movies. They bore the hell out of me.

I'll tell you why, too: they're largely driven by special effects. And now that they've proven they can do anything in special effects, I don't give a damn anymore!

WHAT'S UP, DOC? was the most fun I ever had making a picture.

I thought they'd all be like that. The whole thing was fun.

That was not necessarily the case.

But it was a lot of fun making that picture. Barbara and Ryan were delightful, and introduced Madeline Kahn to pictures, and she was great - just a terrific experience, in that it translated to the audience - audiences had a lot of fun with it. And we had a lot of fun making it!

Pretty much the same way I felt when I wrote the book.

I don't think my opinion has changed very much. The book said what I felt.

It was a more emotional report from the front, so to speak.

And I don't know if I would couch it in exactly the same words.

But overall, I think what happened I described pretty accurately.

Well, it depends.

There are certain films of mine that were not released exactly the ways I wanted them to be. And those I would still like to fix up. And in many cases, I have gone back and done director's cuts of those films - like NICKELODEON or THE LAST PICTURE SHOW or THE THING CALLED LOVE - and I have gone back and re-edited some of these pictures.

But there are director's cuts of quite a few of my pictures. Which means I obviously wasn't happy with the original cut. Otherwise, I wouldn't go back. The ones I didn't go back and re-cut were either hopeless, or pretty good.

I never look at movies of mine by myself.

The only time I see a film of mine is with an audience. I sit with the audience, and watch it.