Colossal Quote by Pauline Kael Download Open image “tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.” — Pauline Kael ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Antipathetic Basically Antipathetic Colossal Colossal Movies Film Movie Movies Basically Tasteful Colossal
Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are. — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
It's mind-boggling to consider that movies this bad are actually committed to film. The poor quality of The Pest in almost every category -… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty."… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I think that when audiences find a movie that they don't expect to like, it adds great word of mouth. — Neal H. Moritz Copy Share Image
I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say. — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any of those films that are considered to be the best bad movies. I didn't know there was really a market… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the… — Ben Hecht 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
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of… — James Buchan Copy Share Image