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Pauline Kael Quote: “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.”

51. “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.”

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Pauline Kael Quote: “McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they’ve freed people from the shame of not reading. They’ve rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.”

52. “McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they’ve freed people from the shame of not reading. They’ve rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “There is something spurious about the very term ‘a movie made for TV,’ because what you make for TV is a TV program.”

53. “There is something spurious about the very term ‘a movie made for TV,’ because what you make for TV is a TV program.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.”

54. “Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being “wised up” knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.”

55. “Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being “wised up” knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “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.”

56. “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

Pauline Kael Quote: “Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.”

57. “Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “TV accustoms people to not expecting much.”

58. “TV accustoms people to not expecting much.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.”

59. “For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.”

60. “The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?”

61. “If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “What this generation was bred to at television’s knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.”

62. “What this generation was bred to at television’s knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.”

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Pauline Kael Quote: “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.”

63. “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

Pauline Kael Quote: “A book might be written on the injustice of the just.”

64. “A book might be written on the injustice of the just.”

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Pauline Kael Quote: “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.”

65. “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

Pauline Kael Quote: “Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.”

66. “Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one’s own preferences into a monomaniac theory.”

67. “There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one’s own preferences into a monomaniac theory.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.”

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

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “A country which accepts wars as contests between good and evil is suffering from the delusion that the morality play symbolizes real political conflicts.”

69. “A country which accepts wars as contests between good and evil is suffering from the delusion that the morality play symbolizes real political conflicts.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.”

70. “Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new.”

71. “The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on – there’s always something to watch.”

72. “For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on – there’s always something to watch.”

— Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael Quote: “If there’s anything to learn from the history of movies, it’s that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.”

73. “If there’s anything to learn from the history of movies, it’s that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.”

— Pauline Kael

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