"It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack."

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Source : Pauline Kael, Francis Davis (2002). “Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael”

Pauline Kael

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“My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.”
“My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened.”
“My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.”
“Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.”

Source : "From Broadway to BUNHEADS, Sutton Foster Previews Her New ABC Family Series". Interview, www.thetvaddict.com. June 6, 2012.
“I think I can be relatively attractive when I dress up, but I'm not Julia Roberts or Catherine Zeta Jones.”
“A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.”

Source : Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.460, Simon and Schuster
“Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.”
“When your image improves, your performance improves.”

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