The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian…

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

— Pauline Kael

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities…

— Pauline Kael

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

— Pauline Kael

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

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

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

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

— Pauline Kael

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

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

— Pauline Kael

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

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

— Pauline Kael

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

— Pauline Kael

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

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

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