When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable. (Pauline Kael)

When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable.

Pauline Kael

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