Pauline Kael Quote

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.


Going Steady (1969) - Trash, Art and the Movies (February 1969)


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.

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.

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.

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.