Pauline Kael Quotes
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The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.
— Pauline Kael
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
— Pauline Kael
This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.
— Pauline Kael
An artist must either give up art or develop.
— Pauline Kael
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
— Pauline Kael
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
— Caitlin Flanagan
Her only flair is in her nostrils.
— Pauline Kael
Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.
— Pauline Kael
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
— Pauline Kael
Nobody really controls a production, now; the director is on his own, even if he's insecure, careless, or nuts.
— Pauline Kael
Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.
— Pauline Kael
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.
— Pauline Kael
I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.
— Pauline Kael
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'
— Pauline Kael
A steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.
— Pauline Kael
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
Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.
— Pauline Kael
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.
— Pauline Kael
![Pauline Kael Quotes By Pauline Kael: Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/pauline-kael-quotes-by-pauline-kael-27510.jpg "Pauline Kael Quotes By Pauline Kael: Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland")
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 to?
— Pauline Kael
Trash has given us an appetite for art.
— Pauline Kael
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
— Pauline Kael
There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.
— Pauline Kael
Great movies are rarely perfect movies.
— Pauline Kael
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
— Pauline Kael
Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.
— Pauline Kael
The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new
— Pauline Kael
There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.
— Pauline Kael
Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.
— Pauline Kael
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
— Pauline Kael
If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
— Pauline Kael
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
When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.
— Pauline Kael
Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.
— Pauline Kael
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
— Pauline Kael
For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
— Pauline Kael
Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts - it's when those who shouldn't, do.
— Pauline Kael
