In this country we encourage creativity among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow too much.
Source: In The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, by Rosalie Maggio, 1994.
-- Pauline Kael, (Jun 19 1919-2001), US critic; She has been a noted New Yorker movie critic since1968; her philosophy of film reviewing was collected in When the Lights Go Down, 1980.