Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebertwas an American film critic and 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. As of 2010, his reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Ebert also published more than 20 books and dozens of collected reviews...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 June 1942
CityUrbana, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.
We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.
Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.
We had lots of big fights, ... We were people who came together one day a week to work together and the other six days of the week we were competitors on two daily newspapers and two different television stations. So there was a lot of competition and a lot of disagreement.
The prevailing style in the mainstream is represented by Michael Bay. This is shorter and shorter takes and less and less dialogue.
Well, you know, a lot of modern directors and their movies are influenced by the flat lighting and textbook cutting style of television.
The secret of the movie is that it doesn't strain to draw parallels with current world events - because it doesn't have to.
The target audience didn't care that we hated those movies because they just expected us to hate them.
Seeing the film over and over again, year after year, I find it never grows over-familiar. It plays like a favorite musical album; the more I know it, the more I like it.
There was a bedrock of respect that developed over the years,
The reason (Burton) wanted to make 'Ed Wood' is that Ed Wood had so much fun making movies. And that's where Ed Wood and Tim Burton connect. Tim Burton makes films that are a lot better, but he doesn't make them with any more love.