Pauline Kael Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: 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.

  Pauline Kael

  Years, People, Effort

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

• Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Effort, Purpose

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

• 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.

  Pauline Kael

  Doors, Years, People

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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