I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free… — 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
