Pauline Kael Television Quotations

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.