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.
television tvs watches
For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
artist television businessman
Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.
ideas drunk able
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.
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.
book might injustice
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
dream people romance
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.
patience art waiting
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.
kissing italian saws
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
sex taste
Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.
dancing wizards want
Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?
writing thinking memoir
I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.
artist vulgarity-is destructive
Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.
talking may citizens
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.