Roger Ebert Quotes - Page 7

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• We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.

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  Dream, Poor, Mortals

  Roger Ebert (2010). “The Great Movies III”, p.150, University of Chicago Press

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• A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

  Roger Ebert

  Unsuspecting

  "Review of Freeway" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. January 24, 1997.

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• Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you'd have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

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  Eye, Cutting, Common Sense

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.22, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• "Dirty Love" wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent... I am not certain that anyone involved has ever seen a movie, or knows what one is.

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  Dirty, Levels, Film

  Roger Ebert's review of "Dirty Love", www.rogerebert.com. September 22, 2005.

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• I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that none of them were harmed during the production.

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  Depressing, Cockroaches, News

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.206, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

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  Venice, Romance, Straightforward

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• Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

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  Thinking, Giving, Looks

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is important? It is such an effective medium between mind and mind. We think largely in words. A medium made only of words doesn't impose the barrier of any other medium. It is naked and unprotected communication. That's how you get pregnant. May you always be so.

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  Communication, Reading, Thinking

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• Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.

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  Real, Clue, Hitchcock

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• 3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.

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  Crazy, Suicidal, Perfectly Good

  "Roger Ebert On Why 3D Movies Suck" by Gillian Reagan, www.businessinsider.com. April 29, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Speaks Out, Ideas

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.

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  Two, People, Sometimes

  Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.242, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

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  Tolerance, Agree

  "Life Itself : A Memoir". Book by Roger Ebert, 2011.

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• A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

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  People, Desire, Needs

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• One of the most sublime and hazardous moments in human experience comes when two people lock eyes and realize that they are sexually attracted to one another. They may not act on the knowledge.They may file it away for future reference. They may deny it. They may never see each other again. But the moment has happened, and for an instant all other considerations are insignificant.

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  Eye, Two, People

  Roger Ebert (2008). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, p.177, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

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  Challenges, Tragedy, Needs

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

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• My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that I haven't read many of them and I never will. You just never know. One day I may - need is the word I use - to read Finnegans Wake, the Icelandic sagas, Churchill's history of the Second World War, the complete Tintin in French, 47 novels by Simenon, and By Love Possessed.

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  War, Book, One Day

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• Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.

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  Cute, Sex, Quality

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.597, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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  Ambition, Noise, Made

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

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  Epic, Credit, Iliad

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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  Eye, Cutting, Long

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding out killer dykes and twisted homo sex fiends as if sexual orientation had anything to do with criminal behavior.

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  Sex, Powerful, Trying

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• I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

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  Patriotic, Family Values, Reasonable

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• A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.

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  Book, Long, Firsts

  Roger Ebert (2002). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003”, p.680, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• [Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as a message: Be cautious, be prudent, be bland, never push anybody, never say what you really think, offer yourself as a hostage to the weirdos even before they make the first move. These days, a lot of people are opposed to the newfound popularity of 'trash television,' and no doubt they are right, and the hosts of these shows are shameless controversy-mongers. But at least they are not intimidated. Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

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  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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