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I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

~Roger Ebert

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

~Roger Ebert

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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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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 Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

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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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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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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

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The Academy is paranoid about its image.

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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.

~Roger Ebert

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: June 18th, 1942

Died: April 4th, 2013

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