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… — 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
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
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
For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something… — 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
There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV… — 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
