"Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers?……" — Roger Ebert
"Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters."
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269 Quotes by Roger Ebert
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Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not…
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I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional…
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Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.
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What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away,
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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter…
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I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
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Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about…
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Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.
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The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.
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To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
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Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank…
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