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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
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Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
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We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.
Roger Ebert
If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.
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There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.
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Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
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If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.
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If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
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It's strange: We leave the movie having enjoyed its conclusion so much that we almost forgot our earlier reservations. But they were there, and they were real.
Roger Ebert
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'
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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
Roger Ebert
The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.
Roger Ebert
Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.
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It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it.
Roger Ebert
It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.
Roger Ebert
Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.
Roger Ebert
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
Roger Ebert
It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.
Roger Ebert
If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.
Roger Ebert
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
Roger Ebert
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.
Roger Ebert
