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Letter "P" » Pauline Kael Quotes
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«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.»
«Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them»
«The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.»
«Trash has given us an appetite for art»
«A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is»
«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.»
Author: Pauline Kael
(Author, Critic)
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«Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.»
«Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.»
«This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.»
«One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.»
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