Movie Quotes by Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

Pixar is the first studio that is a movie star.

— Roger Ebert

Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.

— Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

— Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

— Roger Ebert

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,

— Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.

— Roger Ebert

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth…

— Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.

— Roger Ebert

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

— Roger Ebert

It's strange: We leave the movie having enjoyed its conclusion so much that we almost forgot our earlier reservations. But they were…

— Roger Ebert

“It is a truism that Hollywood trailers advertise not the movie that has been made, but the movie that the studio wishes…

— 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

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

— Roger Ebert

A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new…

— Roger Ebert

There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see…

— Roger Ebert

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You…

— 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

They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding…

— 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

We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as,…

— Roger Ebert

“Say Anything depends above all on the human qualities of its actors. Cusack and Skye must have been cast for their clear-eyed…

— Roger Ebert

In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or…

— Roger Ebert

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just…

— Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.

— Roger Ebert

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

— Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

— Roger Ebert

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

— 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

Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having…

— Roger Ebert

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product…

— Roger Ebert