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Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

Roger Ebert
Art, Powerful, People
Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.21, University of Chicago Press

Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your way of looking at things within very narrow boundaries or else you'll offend someone. Certainly one of the purposes of journalism is to challenge just that way of thinking, and certainly one of the purposes of criticism is to break boundaries, that's also one of the purposes of art.

Roger Ebert
Art, Thinking, Ideas

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

Roger Ebert
Art, Understanding, Stranger
"11th Hour", Colorado Public Television, 1994.

No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.

Roger Ebert
Art, Holocaust, Catharsis
Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.160, Andrews McMeel Publishing

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

Roger Ebert
Art, Art Is, Good Art
Roger Ebert (2002). “The Great Movies”, p.456, Crown Archetype

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. But if you go to foreign films, if you go to documentaries, if you go to independent films, if you go to good films, you will become a better person because you will understand human nature better. Movies record human nature in a better way than any other art form, that's for sure.

Roger Ebert
Art, Independent, People
Source: progressive.org

Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

Roger Ebert
Art, Opportunity, Cinema
Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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