“Does the critic wish to influence the kind of film that costs more than £250,000? It is as if he were to send a postcard to General Motors explaining that he would like them to make a raft next year, or a helicopter, instead of a car.”

— Kenneth Tynan

"Footnote on Cinema" (undated), p. 260
Tynan Right and Left (1967)

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English theatre critic and writer 1927–1980

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