Roger ebert

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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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...

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

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My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

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Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

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That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

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'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

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Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.

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It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

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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.

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