Pauline Kael Quotes

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

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

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

Her only flair is in her nostrils.

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

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.".