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Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
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Roger Joseph Ebert
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The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?
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I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
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Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.
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It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.
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Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.
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All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
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Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.
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What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.
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'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life.
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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.
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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.
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That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.
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While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.
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If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.
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We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.
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The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.
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I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation. That is why 90% of academic film theory is bullshit. Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.
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I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.
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