Pauline Kael Quotes

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opene...

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply an...

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slippin...

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority...

An artist must either give up art or develop.

...When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be for...

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistake...

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, ...

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

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason t...