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Roger Joseph Ebert (/ˈiːbərt/; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

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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.

Art, Become, Cinema, Opportunity, Perhaps, Television

We must try to contribute joy to the world. . . I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

Joy, Know, Lived, Long, Trying, World

Grave of the Fireflies” is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation. . . It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

Animation, Emotional, Firefly, Powerful, Rethinking, War

Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well, what God did was set the mechanism in motion and then allow people to do the best they can under the circumstances that they're dealt in order to gain grace and get into heaven.

Order, People, Evil, God, Say

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

Empathy, Generates, Machine, Machines, Movies

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

People, Prejudice, Susceptible, Think, Thinking

It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives.

Establish, Lives, Love, Reason, Relationships, Said

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out the same stuff. When I look at my e-mails, I see the same Limbaugh rhetoric; apparently, people don't have any ideas of their own. And there's just this drumroll of anti-progressive thought.

Apparently, Drumroll, Ideas, People, Thinking

My newspaper job … is my identity.

Identity, Job, Jobs, Newspaper, Newspapers

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

Enough, Joy, Long, Matter, Mind, True

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.

Coffin, Gone, Law, Nail, Should Have, Thinking

When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.

Day, Doris, Film Critics, Target, Ten, Today

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

Enough, Good, Good Movie, Long, Short

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

Come, Guarantees, Oblivion, Return

People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics. " 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.

Years, Daddy, People, Praying, Interested

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

Comedian, Good, Know, Knows, Lonelier, Sight

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

Fantasies, Fantasy, Helping, Imagine, Things

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

Comedy, Erection, Eroticism, Laughing, Make, Two

When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have a voyeuristic experience; we have an out of the body experience. The screen is more real than our thoughts are at the moment we are looking at the film and we place ourselves in the place of the people on the screen, and when they behave nobly, it makes us feel noble, when they are sad and when they have lost love, we feel sad; we can identify with that.

Behave, Character, Characters, Lost Love, Noble, Real

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

Middle East, Notion, Regions, Middle, East, Governed

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