Pauline Kael Quotes About Movies

Quotes about: Movies

• We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Mean, People

• Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Art, Expression

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

• 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

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Kissing, Italian

  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang "A Note on the Title" (1968)

• This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Looks, Actors

  Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

• At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Real, Order

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

• tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Colossal

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

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Air, Talking

  Herman Jacob Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael (1971). “The Citizen Kane book”

• When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Want, Kind

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

• Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Believe, Care

  1970 Going Steady.

• Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Art, Long

  Pauline Kael (1970). “Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969”, Marion Boyars

• When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Baby, Couple

• If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Senses, Ifs

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

• Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Finals, Desperation

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

• There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Believe, Thug

  "Stanley Strangelove". Review of "A Clockwork Orange" in January 1972. "Deeper into Movies". Book by Pauline Kael, www.visual-memory.co.uk. 1973.

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