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
tests virtuous feels
If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
mistake anxiety judgement
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
taste culture reverence
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
innocence corruption ifs
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.
depressing art mean
It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.
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.
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.
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.
mass-culture form deprivation
a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.
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.