I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

in a way [director Lynch's] behavior is more sadistic than the Hopper character"). As an undergraduate he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and president of the U.

As of 2010 Ebert's movie reviews are syndicated in more than 200 newspapers in the United States and worldwide by Universal Press Syndicate. He has honorary degrees from the University of Colorado the AFI Conservatory and in 2007 the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.