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Pauline Kael Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american critic Pauline Kael on topics like movies, information, independent

  • Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

    — Pauline Kael on art
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  • In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

    — Pauline Kael on criticism
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  • The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

    — Pauline Kael on advertising
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  • 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 see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.

    — Pauline Kael on television
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  • One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

    — Pauline Kael on culture
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  • 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 movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.

    — Pauline Kael on film
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  • This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

    — Pauline Kael on baldness
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  • 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 the patience to make art.

    — Pauline Kael on announce
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  • 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 on movies
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  • About Pauline Kael

    Name Pauline Kael
    Quotes 9 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Critic
    Birthday October 16
    About Pauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. She was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" movie reviews. She approached movies emotionally, with a strongly colloquial writing style.
    Top topics movies, information, independent, critic, rest

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