Roger Ebert

(13 votes)   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.

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(12 votes)   Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

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(11 votes)   All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

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(11 votes)   Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

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(11 votes)   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.

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(10 votes)   I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

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(10 votes)   I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

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(9 votes)   But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

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(9 votes)   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.

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(9 votes)   Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

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(8 votes)   Well, you know, a lot of modern directors and their movies are influenced by the flat lighting and textbook cutting style of television.

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(7 votes)   And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

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(7 votes)   I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

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(7 votes)   I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

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

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