Film Quotes by Roger Ebert

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

— Roger Ebert

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

— Roger Ebert

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it." Roger Ebert”

— Roger Ebert

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,

— Roger Ebert

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

— Roger Ebert

Film theory has nothing to do with film.

— Roger Ebert

Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.

— Roger Ebert

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

— Roger Ebert

Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

— Roger Ebert

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.

— Roger Ebert

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

— Roger Ebert

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know,…

— Roger Ebert

It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.

— Roger Ebert

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can…

— Roger Ebert

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

— Roger Ebert

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

— Roger Ebert

The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of…

— Roger Ebert

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds,…

— Roger Ebert

'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless…

— Roger Ebert

Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make…

— Roger Ebert

“The movies that last, the ones we return to, don’t always have lofty themes or Byzantine complexities. Sometimes they last because they…

— Roger Ebert

“We’d had a revelation. This was the direction American movies should take: into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the…

— Roger Ebert

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to…

— Roger Ebert

“The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures -…

— Roger Ebert

To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one…

— Roger Ebert

Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds…

— Roger Ebert

Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly…

— Roger Ebert

When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have…

— Roger Ebert

Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack…

— Roger Ebert

Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's…

— Roger Ebert

Vincent Gallo has put a curse on my colon and a hex on my prostate. He called me a 'fat pig' in…

— Roger Ebert

Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with…

— Roger Ebert

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.

— Roger Ebert

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

— Roger Ebert

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

— Roger Ebert

Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.

— Roger Ebert

A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

— Roger Ebert

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

— Roger Ebert

In the world of bad movies, 'Death to Smoochy' is a towering achievement.

— Roger Ebert

Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

— Roger Ebert