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.

Bogdanovich also brought attention to such forgotten pioneers of American cinema as Allan Dwan. In an homage to his Sopranos character he also voiced the analyst of Bart Simpson's therapist in an episode of The Simpsons and appeared as himself in the "Robots Versus Wrestlers" episode of How I Met Your Mother along with Arianna Huffington and Will Shortz.

His most critically acclaimed film is The Last Picture Show (1971). He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors which included William Friedkin Brian De Palma George Lucas Martin Scorsese Michael Cimino and Francis Ford Coppola. Peter Bogdanovich (Serbian: Петар Богдановић Petar Bogdanović born July 30 1939) is an American film historian director writer actor producer and critic.