“Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.” ArtSeemsArtistCenturyMastersFunctionMuseumsMasterpieceClownExplosives Book:5001 Nights at the Movies Source: 5001 Nights at the Movies
“There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?” PeopleIfsWantBelieveUseHandsSeemsFilmTalkingAudienceViolenceGoes OnBalanceDirectorsPressesDon't BelieveDenyAssumptionMovieCensorshipOffendedImplicationsBrillianceBrutalityThugFreedom Of The PressDazzling Author:Pauline Kael
“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.” ArtSeemsYoungArtistWaitingPatience Book:For Keeps Source: For Keeps
“Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.” MaySeemsActorsTalkingAirCitizensMovieJudaismCitizen Kane Book:The Citizen Kane book Source: The Citizen Kane book
“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 see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.” PeopleIfsWayTryingYearsLooksStillsSeemsMightEvilNextEffortWatchesAudienceSawsWifeDoorsTelevisionYears AgoSpendingEveningInnocenceThirtyBoresTemptedShamefulThirty YearsWatch MovieOld Movie Book:Raising Kane and Other Essays Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays
