Pauline Kael Quotes

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

Hollywood is a reflection of a general climate that we live in.

If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

I used to be able to pitch them on the basis of the zombie action, and I could hide the message inside that. Now, you can't. The moment you mention the word 'zombie,' it's got to be, 'Hey, Brad Pitt paid $400 million to do that.'

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.

Hollywood is very divisive.

I like to say that Hollywood is one of the most democratic entities in the world and the reason why is every ticket is a vote.

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making money, which has gotten out of proportion.

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?

If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.

I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.

I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.