No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
Kenneth Tynan
You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can`t take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.
Roger Ebert
When kids can`t afford to see it anymore maybe we`ll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.
Lester Bangs
What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.
Lester Bangs
Well, you know what, I`m 60 years old, and I`ve been interested in politics since I was on my daddy`s knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
Roger Ebert
Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late `60s, early `70s for a long time as a new location.
Richard Roeper
We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn`t have to be white, and the other one doesn`t have to be the ethnic sidekick. We`re way over that. And I think it`s happeni...
Roger Ebert
Wal-Mart doesn`t really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.
Richard Roeper
The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.
Richard Roeper
The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don`t find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.
Lester Bangs
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.
Roger Ebert
That`s one reason why it`s pretty worthless, I can`t totally buy it, if you think about it, it`s things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.
Lester Bangs
Or like in the early 70`s when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.
Lester Bangs