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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
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Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
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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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You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories
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I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.
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It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
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To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.
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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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Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
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Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.
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I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.
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Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.
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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
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If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to be about. Look at a movie that a lot of people love, and you will find something profound, no matter how silly the film may be.
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Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.
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Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.
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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.
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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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Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!
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There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.
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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.
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