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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
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It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'
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I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would have to say. I discovered that everyone, speaking honestly and openly, had important things to tell me.
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Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. 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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We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
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It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.
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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
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Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.
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If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.
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We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.
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I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.
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There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?
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Going to a movie so you won't be offended is like eating potato chips made with Olestra you avoid the dangers of the real thing, but your insides fill up with synthetic runny stuff.
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Sometimes, it's all about the casting.
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We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.
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The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.
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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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The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and in the minds of the [white] men who rule Alabama, those children had never lived [...] their blood is on so many hands, that history will weep in the telling...and it is not new blood. It is old, so very old.
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In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'
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[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.
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'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
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