Roger Ebert

"Most of us do not consciously look at movies."

"Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems."

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

"Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity."

"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 really don't understand the First Amendment."

"There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom."