We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it? — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“The world of French crime films is a particular place, informed by the French love for Hollywood film noir, a genre they… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough? — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
“We’d had a revelation. This was the direction American movies should take: into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the vulgar and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
“Most courtroom movies feel it necessary to end with a clear-cut verdict. But 12 Angry Men never states whether the defendant is innocent or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you.… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
“One of my delights in these books, on the other hand, has been to include movies not often cited as “great”—some because they are… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. — Roger Ebert Copy Share
Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence. — Roger Ebert Copy Share
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. We can now have action movies with two stars… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
