It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying… — 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
The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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 Image
A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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