Roger Ebert Quotes

• All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

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• A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

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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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• You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can’t take your eyes away from it… Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

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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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• We don’t have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

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• We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn’t have to be white, and the other one doesn’t have to be the ethnic sidekick. We’re way over that. And I think it’s happening in society, too.

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• The right really dominates radio, and it’s amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn’t. They want to shut other people up. They really don’t understand the First Amendment.

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• The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can’t change your mind, because God sure isn’t going to change His.

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• The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

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• The Academy is paranoid about its image.

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• No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

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• Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

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• It’s funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that’s causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it’s in the Bush Administration.

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• It’s a good question, because 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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• If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

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• If a movie isn’t a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

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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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• I’m kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That’s fine with me.

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  Tags in Kind, Glad

• I’ll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

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Roger Ebert (39)

Birth:	18th June, 1942
Death:	4th April, 2013
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Journalist, Screenwriter

About

Roger Joseph Ebert was an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter, who had been described by Forbes as "the most powerful pundit in America". He was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the first to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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