If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence. — 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
If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be? — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes… — 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
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter,… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In… — 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
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break… — 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
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
What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable? — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we… — 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
