Author: Pauline Kael

Quotes

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

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

- Pauline Kael

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

- Pauline Kael

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

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

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

- Pauline Kael

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