My favorite kind of casting and my favorite kind of acting is where
you don't feel them acting. That's why i'm so opposed to so much of
the acting that's going on today. When you say 'oh, isn't that a great
performance?', well I don't really want to see a performance. I want
to see something happening that's real. Movie stars by their nature
were not acting. They were being. I'm talking about movie stars like
John Wayne or Cary Grant or Audrey Hepburn. The movie stars of the
golden age were not 'acting' in quotes. I mean they did occasionally.
Bogart would act in
The Caine Mutiny or
The Treasure of the Sierra
Madre. But what made him a star was when he was being Bogart.
-- Peter
Bogdanovich. "
They All Laughed 25 Years Later:
Director to Director - A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich and Wes
Anderson" (Video documentary short, 2006)
[
video] discussing
They All Laughed (movie, 1981).