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
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
He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place 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
Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“An artist must either give up art or develop. There are, of course, two ways of giving up: stopping altogether or taking… — 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
The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory. — 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
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. — 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
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons. — 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 Image
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 Image
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. — 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 theatre; a… — 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 sometimes think… — 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 them. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be? — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
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 Image
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. — 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 our way… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
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