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
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.
years people effort
If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.
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.
hero loner definitions
Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.
mass-culture form deprivation
a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.
business thinking differences
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.
advertising life-is propaganda
All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.
movie real order
At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.
reality people want
Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.
american-critic critic information rest source
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
american-critic art artist civilization country follow free full future importance nourish roots society takes vision wherever
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.