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“Pixar is the first studio that is a movie star.”

Quote by Roger Ebert

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Roger Ebert was a renowned American film critic, born on June 18, 1942, and passed away on April 4, 2013. Known for his unique style of film criticism and profound insights into the art of cinema, he served as a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and founded the influential film review website RogerEbert.com. more

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“I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.”

Hard Wanted Film Young Purpose Walks Clear Walking Directors Skills Theater Victim Sticks Torture Hard Times Killers Brutal Young Women Spine Creeks Credentials Tracking Mutilation

Author:Roger Ebert

“It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.”

Humans Stills Character Feelings Film Reading Watches Audience Written Computer Dialogue Filmmaker

Author:Roger Ebert

“It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.”

Firsts Kind Film Worst Shots Just Being

Author:Roger Ebert

“It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.”

School Class Roles Saws Students Drama High School Productions Gifted Steppenwolf Drama Class

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

“Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.”

Should Credit Epic Estates Iliad Epic Poems

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005

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

Knows Sight Comedian Being Funny

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

“As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy is OK. Cruel is not.”

Feels Character Summer Affection Swim Tides Vulgarity

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2001

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2001

“One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean.”

Ifs Knows Mean Doe Grows Filmmaker Hopeful Pie Sequels

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

“The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.”

Humans Laughing Human Nature Taste Notion Manners Civilized Vulgar Vulgarity Hygiene Decorum Vulgarity Is

Author:Roger Ebert

“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.”

Giving Law Asking Response Innocent Reviews Trash Postcards Unsuspecting

Book:Roger Ebert's Video Companion

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion