In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from out
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Pauline Kael quotes
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The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basi
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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 ha
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose--selling--that it operates without tha
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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 se
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In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Robert Redford ... has turned almost alarmingly blond--he's gone past platinum, he must be into plutonium; his hair is coordinated
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One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
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