The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.
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 i… - 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 i…
- Pauline Kael
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. - Pauline Kael
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable? - Pauline Kael
What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?
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 … - Pauline Kael
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 …
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
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast c… - Pauline Kael
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast c…
It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a directo… - Pauline Kael
It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a directo…
in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's… - Pauline Kael
in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's…
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. - Pauline Kael
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
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