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Roger Ebert
June 18, 1942 -
Nationality: American
Category: Critic
Subcategory: American Critic

All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

   

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

   

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.

   

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

   

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

   

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

   

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

   

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

   

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

   

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

   

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