5 Pauline Kael Quotes on Media

Pauline Kael quotes on media

4. In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

21. 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.

34. TV executives think that the programs with the highest ratings are what TV viewers want, rather than what they settle for.

51. 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.

52. Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.