3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Roger Ebert The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can’t change your mind, because God sure isn’t going to change His.
3 December 2020 Roger Ebert The right really dominates radio, and it’s amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn’t. They want to shut other people up. They really don’t understand the First Amendment.
3 December 2020 Roger Ebert I begin to feel like most Americans don’t understand the First Amendment, don’t understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don’t understand that it’s the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Roger Ebert The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
3 December 2020 Roger Ebert Well, you know what, I’m 60 years old, and I’ve been interested in politics since I was on my daddy’s knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
3 December 2020 Roger Ebert Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
