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Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.
Pauline Kael
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Pauline Kael
Age: 82 †
Born: 1919
Born: June 19
Died: 2001
Died: September 3
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All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.
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Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.
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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 have the patience to make art.
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What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
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I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.
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