We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.
Pauline KaelFor perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
Pauline KaelThe romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what youโve seen.
Pauline Kael