There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.
Roger EbertI find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.
Roger EbertWe must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.
Roger EbertPolitical correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your way of looking at things within very narrow boundaries or else you'll offend someone. Certainly one of the purposes of journalism is to challenge just that way of thinking, and certainly one of the purposes of criticism is to break boundaries, that's also one of the purposes of art.
Roger Ebert