All Pauline Kael Quotes
- Her only flair is in her nostrils. Flair
- What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable? Getting Old
- Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. All
- Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do. Drive
- The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are… Always Seeing
- It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a… All
- Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out. Dominated
- Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher. American
- I can't believe Nixon won. I don't know anyone who voted for him. Anyone
- Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery. Artist
- Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something… Actor
- I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have. Asked
- Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want… Bit
- Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider. Divider
- The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of… Appeal
- The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new Comparative
- The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who… Adolescent
- A book might be written on the injustice of the just. Book
- We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can… Criticism
- What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. Bred
- A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good… Alive
- Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera. Called
- The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. Any
- Great movies are rarely perfect movies. Funny
- I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. Attended