Roger Ebert Quotes

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• It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.
• James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
• Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.
• Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
• Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
• My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
• Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.
• Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
• One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a…
• People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.
• Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.
• Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
• Sometimes it's all about the casting.
• That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.
• The Academy is paranoid about its image.
• There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?
• Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.
• To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved,…
• We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.
• We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

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