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Pauline Kael

"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."

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Donna Grant

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat."

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Donna Grant

"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies."

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Donna Grant

"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Donna Grant

"Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?"

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Pauline Kael
"A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is."

Mistake

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Pauline Kael
"Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'"

Hair

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Pauline Kael
"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."

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Pauline Kael
"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art."

Art

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Pauline Kael
"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself."

Creativity

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Pauline Kael
"Trash has given us an appetite for art."

Art

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Pauline Kael
"A book might be written on the injustice of the just."

Justice

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Pauline Kael
"In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."

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Pauline Kael
"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

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Pauline Kael
"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."

Movies

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