Pauline Kael Quote

I loved writing about things when I was excited about them. It's not fun writing about bad movies. I used to think it was bad for my skin. It's painful writing about the bad things in an art form, particularly when young kids are going to be enthusiastic about those things, because they haven't seen anything better, or anything different.


Quoted in Francis Davis, Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael (Da Capo, 2003, ISBN 0-306-81230-4).


I loved writing about things when I was excited about them. It's not fun writing about bad movies. I used to think it was bad for my skin. It's...

I loved writing about things when I was excited about them. It's not fun writing about bad movies. I used to think it was bad for my skin. It's...

I loved writing about things when I was excited about them. It's not fun writing about bad movies. I used to think it was bad for my skin. It's...

I loved writing about things when I was excited about them. It's not fun writing about bad movies. I used to think it was bad for my skin. It's...