1.They're classics, everyone agrees, but that word "classic" has become terribly cheap in relation to movies. It's applied so promiscuously that by now the only thing you can be sure of about a "film classic" is that it isn't actually in current release. - Ebert

2."The cinema IS Chaplin." He had proven his greatness in every possible way;-Ebert

3. go to a lot of movies, and I can't remember the last time I heard a paying audience actually applaud at the end of a film. But this one did-Ebert

4. "Modern Times" was Charlie's first film after five years of hibernation in the 1930s. He didn't much like talkies. - Ebert.