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Roger Ebert Quotes

Roger Ebert quotes about movie

American Critic June 18, 1942

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I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me. Roger Ebert
By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested. Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert quote: "In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't..."
In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are. Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert quote: "No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough."
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. Roger Ebert
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. Roger Ebert
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. Roger Ebert
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. Roger Ebert
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. Roger Ebert
We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too. Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert quote: "Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think."
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think. Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert quote: "The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with..."
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. Roger Ebert
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. Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert quote: "Most of us do not consciously look at movies."
Most of us do not consciously look at movies. Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert quote: "Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually..."
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film. Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert quote: "It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it."
It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it. Roger Ebert

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