Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful,… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. — Pauline Kael Copy Share
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. — Pauline Kael Copy Share
A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. — Pauline Kael Copy Share
If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be? — Pauline Kael Copy Share
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. — Pauline Kael Copy Share
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money… — Pauline Kael Copy Share
Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond-he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated with his teeth. — Pauline Kael Copy Share
