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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.

Roger Ebert

People

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.

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

Eyes

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

Roger Ebert

Movies

Attention

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.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

Roger Ebert

Class

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.

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.

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.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Roger Ebert

Movies

Ambition

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Roger Ebert

Movies

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

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

Politics

Question

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.