"It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past."

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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.

— Peter Bogdanovich