Pauline Kael Quotes - Page 4

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• He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the Revolution is too much and that is what is great about it. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Art, Real

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• tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Colossal

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• The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawing an audience - they're inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They're stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie - for any movie - is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Strong, Couple

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• 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

  Art, Pieces, Television

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Independent, Bigs

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• Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

  Pauline Kael

  Addiction, Directors, Noir

  Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

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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

  Mistake, Worst, Movie Making

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.

  Pauline Kael

  Dirty, Play, Righteous

  Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

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• 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 no difference.

  Pauline Kael

  Business, Thinking, Differences

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• Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

  Pauline Kael

  Hollywood, Patterns, Want

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• An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.

  Pauline Kael

  Ideas, Drunk, Able

  Pauline Kael (1991). “Movie love: complete reviews 1988-1991”, E P Dutton

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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

  Movie, Air, Talking

  Herman Jacob Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael (1971). “The Citizen Kane book”

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• Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

  Pauline Kael

  Taken, Mean, Knowing

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• If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

  Pauline Kael

  Innocence, Corruption, Ifs

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• I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

  Pauline Kael

  Special, World, Sometimes

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 28 Dec. 1972

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• McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

  Pauline Kael

  Stupid, Book, Reading

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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