Roger Ebert Quotes

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• We must try to contribute joy to the world.
• It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.
• Friends don't let Jackasses drink and drive.
• I've been told that I am evil. I've been told that I am behind the persecution of millions of Americans. That I have encouraged hate…
• If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.
• My newspaper job … is my identity.
• Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games…
• It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.
• And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.
• People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is…
• I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
• I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.
• If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.
• It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.
• It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
• It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
• Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
• There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
• When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I…
• Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.

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