140 Quotes by Pauline Kael

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn’t know.

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

It’s sometimes discouraging to see all of a director’s movies, because there’s so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director’s artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he’s a hack.

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

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'