Pauline Kael Quotes on Media
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In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
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When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable.
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TV executives think that the programs with the highest ratings are what TV viewers want, rather than what they settle for.
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Earlier generations went to see what was forbidden in life and developed a real excitement about the movies. Today's rating system keeps kids out of the good ones. I wouldn't want them to see movies like Natural Born Killers, but my tendency is you're better off seeing things than not. That glazed indifference kids develop can be worse than over-excitement.
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Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.