knowledge to the mainstream american public of films that otherwise people would have never heard of, and that was certainly the case for me. i really owe in some sense my career to him, because he was the very first person to write about my very first movie. >> that's right. he said roger and me is the right movie in the right place at the right time with the right sense of humor. that was of course your brilliant expose of g.m. and its ceo, roger smith. great tributes today, one from steven spielberg who said roger loved movies, they were his life. his reviews went deeper than thumbs up or thumbs down. he wrote with passion through a real knowledge of film and film history and in doing so, he helped many movies find their audiences. robert redford said one of the great champions of freedom, of artistic expression and the power of independent films was still unknown and few would support it. president barack obama said