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One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered

One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered

Roger Ebert
Giving, Titles, Lovers

A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself.

Roger Ebert
Dream, Thinking, Giving
Roger Ebert (2012). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert”, p.184, University of Chicago Press

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.

Roger Ebert
Thinking, Giving, Looks
Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

Roger Ebert
Law, Giving, Asking
Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub

Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have. No one with any literacy, taste or intelligence would want to teach these courses, so the bona fide definition of people teaching them are people who are incapable of teaching anything else.

Roger Ebert
Teaching, People, Giving
"Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology." by David Weddle, articles.latimes.com. July 13, 2003.

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

Roger Ebert
Jobs, Thinking, Giving

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.

Roger Ebert
Thinking, Giving, Television
Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

The fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. And we've had a concerted policy of taking money away from the poor and giving it to the rich wholesale, and at the same time, we have the runaway corporations, and the greed.

Roger Ebert
People, Giving, Greed
Source: progressive.org

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