Best Pauline Kael Quotes
- Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. Believe
- We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean… Barrage
- One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down. Culture
- Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of… Art
- 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 to… Ago
- Trash has given us an appetite for art. Appetite
- There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory. Any
- Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep… Chance
- In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Advertising
- A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. Anxiety
- It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have… Announce
- Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. Appreciate
- The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. Correct
- This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness. Baldness
- 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
- The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Advertising