Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael
Pauline Kaelwas an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991. Earlier in her career, her work appeared in City Lights, McCall's and The New Republic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 June 1919
CountryUnited States of America
Pauline Kael quotes about
tvs television program
There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.
perception criticism saws
We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.
directors sometimes repetition
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 director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.
getting-older way vulnerable
What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?
mistake worst movie-making
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.
movie believe care
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.
movie mean people
We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images.
movie finals desperation
Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.
special world sometimes
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.
movie ifs senses
If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.
movie want kind
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.
patterns want hollywood
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.
movie art long
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.
mass-culture form deprivation
a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.