Peter Biskind
Peter Biskind
Peter Biskind is an American cultural critic, film historian, journalist, former executive editor of Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996. He wrote several books depicting life in Hollywood, including Seeing Is Believing, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Down and Dirty Pictures, and Gods and Monsters, some of which were bestsellers. In 2010 he published a biography of director and actor Warren Beatty, entitled Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America...
perfectionist studios
'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.
event festival filmmakers regarded sleepy
It was a sleepy gathering, not yet the make-or-break event for filmmakers that it would become, The festival was regarded by many distributors as toxic.
companies mgm plug pulled
And he has guts, ... Most companies would have pulled the plug on 'Cold Mountain' after MGM pulled out, but he went ahead.
running thinking long
I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.
falling-in-love stars animal
It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with ...
age pieces youth
I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.
years lucky politician
I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.
sex men two
I've always felt there are three sexes: men, women, and actors. And actors combine the worst qualities of the other two.
marriage wedding noon
Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.
men artist giving
Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.