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"50 Roger Ebert Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 18 June 1942. Died: 4 April 2013 | Critic | Historian | Journalist | Screenwriter | Author |

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Look Most Movies Us
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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Every Film Great New
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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Confused Emotions Intellect Lie
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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Action Desires Feed Go
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All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

Become Critics Discussions Get
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And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Argue Both Celebrate Differ
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But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

Fact Going Most People
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Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

America Class Film Invisible
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I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

American Begin Class Feel
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I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President

Bush Elected President Think
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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

More Most People Prejudice
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I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

Beyond Categorize Get Idea
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I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

Boost Criticism Enormous Film
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I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

Fine Glad Kind Me
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If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Been Comedy Drop Gate
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If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

Better Get Hearing Hollywood
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It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Agree Bad Based Because
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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
Absorb Attention More Movies
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The Academy is paranoid about its image.

About Academy Image Paranoid
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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Ambition Drowned Get Just
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We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
Filmmaking Lot Conscious
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Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

About Been Daddy Election
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You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

Any Away Citizen Cuts
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I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Am Bored Celebrities Celebrity
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No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
Bad Enough Good Long
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The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

Because Being Change God
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Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

Camels Castles Clouds Like
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A film is a terrible thing to waste.
Film Terrible Thing Waste
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Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

Depressed Lack Panicked Time
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Sometimes it's all about the casting.

About Casting Sometimes
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In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

Acting Few Many Talented
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It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

Broke Consequences Film Find
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It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

Crazy Hollywood Movie Over
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In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'

Development Hollywood Means Title
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I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.

Big Bladder Bottle Came
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Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

About Casually Experience Folks
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Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

Artists Because Crowd Drama
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A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

Actress Age Attract Cameron
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We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA

DNA Help Identifying Our
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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

Ancient Beautiful Evolved Gone
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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
Certain Funny Genius Must
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I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
About Good Movies People
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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

Character Comedy Enough Good
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Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Ever Least Nothing Romances
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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

Act Makes Sense Something
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I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

Although Audience Buddy Found
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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Boredom Death Existential Like
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Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

Being Come Creative Faces
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I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

About Contemplate Enjoy Facts
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We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

Blessed Condition First Hazardous
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Roger Ebert Quotes & Sayings