Art doesn't come in measured quantities it's got to be too much or it's not enough.
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Trash has given us an appetite for art.Pauline Kael
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
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
I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are eclectic.
Pauline Kael
This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.
Pauline Kael
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Pauline Kael
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