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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
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Reporter
Screenwriter
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Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
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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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The Academy is paranoid about its image.
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What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.
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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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Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.
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Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.
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All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
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A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
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In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.
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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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Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp.
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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
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A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
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I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.
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Friends don't let Jackasses drink and drive.
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I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance.
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Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.
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It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.
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But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
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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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