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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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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 Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.
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It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.
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What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.
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Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
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I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.
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Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more.
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The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.
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But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
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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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I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.
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Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.
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What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.
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There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.
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We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.
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My newspaper job … is my identity.
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