Pauline Kael

'Pauline Kael' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Kael, Pauline Filmography

• Play in Full Screen For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

  1998, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Complete Citizen Kane

  1991, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Magical Eye

  1989, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Stelle emigranti

  1982, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Pauline Kael:

"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."

"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.""

"Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera."

"Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. 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. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence."

"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"

"A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is"

"Trash has given us an appetite for art"

"The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."

"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them"

"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."

"Trash has given us an appetite for art."

"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."

"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."

"One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down."

"Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'"

"A book might be written on the injustice of the just."

"In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."