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We are the playthings of the gods.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
Journalist
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Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
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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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Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.
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If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
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Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.
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It's strange: We leave the movie having enjoyed its conclusion so much that we almost forgot our earlier reservations. But they were there, and they were real.
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Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.
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We laugh, that we may not cry.
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I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
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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 am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.
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Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
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Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.
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What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.
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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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I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.
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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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Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.
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[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.
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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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