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Pauline Kael quotes

American Critic June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001

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Pauline Kael quote: "The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life:..."
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael quote: "An artist must either give up art or develop."
An artist must either give up art or develop. Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael quote: "Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate..."
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
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 is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. Pauline Kael
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
...When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything—even the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically. Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael quote: "Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his..."
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.' Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael quote: "Trash has given us an appetite for art."
Trash has given us an appetite for art. Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael quote: "A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about..."
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. 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
Pauline Kael quote: "A book might be written on the injustice of the just."
A book might be written on the injustice of the just. Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael quote: "This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness."
This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness. Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael quote: "Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us..."
Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts—it's when those who shouldn't, do. Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael quote: "One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for..."
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down. Pauline Kael
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 what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. Pauline Kael

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