Roger Ebert: Quotes about people

Roger Ebert was American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter. Explore interesting quotes on people.

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“Empathy has been in short supply in our nation recently. Our leaders are quick to congratulate us on our own feelings, slow to ask us to wonder how others feel. But maybe times are changing. Every Lee film is an exercise in empathy. He is not interested in congratulating the black people in his audience, or condemning the white ones. He puts human beings on the screen, and asks his audience to walk a little while in their shoes.”

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/malcolm-x-1992 of Malcolm X (18 November 1992) <br class="br">Reviews, Four star reviews

“Especially in its opening scenes, Ballast is "slower" and "quieter" than we usually expect. You know what? So is life, most of the time. We don't wake up and immediately start engaging with plot points. But Ballast inexorably grows and deepens and gathers power and absorbs us. I always say I hardly ever cry at sad films, but I sometimes do, just a little, at films about good people.”

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ballast-2008 of Ballast (29 October 2008) <br class="br">Reviews, Four star reviews

“Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy. Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.”

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/death-to-smoochy-2002 of Death to Smoochy (29 March 2002) <br class="br">Reviews, Half-star reviews