The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new. - Pauline Kael

It's as if Brian de Palma were saying, "What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?"

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

Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a fine actor — probably because when they looked in his face they were ready to give him their power of attorney.