Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new — 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
Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if… — 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 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
In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world,… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to… — 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
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
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of… — 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
