"Great movies are rarely perfect movies."

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Source : Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

Pauline Kael

#Perfect Quotes

“Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.”
“Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.”
“A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls... and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side.”
“Comics are a "young" art form, and there is much confusion as to how to treat them. Images have more immediate impact than words, and it is not every reader who can be convinced to relax into experiencing the work for what it is - not words and pictures, but a different form, where the narrative is propelled by the blending of image, word and sequence, and where no element can be extricated and have the same meaning by itself. When this art is shown in a gallery, its "thingness" is called to attention, it is no longer experienced as "story," but rather as an artifact of the artist's process.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.”
“I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.”
“It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.”
“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed”

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