Cinema Quotes by Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

Film theory has nothing to do with film.

— Roger Ebert

Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.

— Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

— Roger Ebert

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

— 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

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

— Roger Ebert

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

— 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

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

— Roger Ebert

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

— Roger Ebert

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

— Roger Ebert

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

— Roger Ebert

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

— Roger Ebert

Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a…

— Roger Ebert

“The world of French crime films is a particular place, informed by the French love for Hollywood film noir, a genre they…

— Roger Ebert

Grave of the Fireflies” is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list…

— 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

Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn…

— Roger Ebert

“Unlike modern films where superstars dominate every scene, the Hollywood films of the golden era have depth in writing and casting, so…

— 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

Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy…

— 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

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

From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen,…

— Roger Ebert

Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find…

— 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

I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of…

— 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

“He was an editor for seven years before directing his first film, and his career stands as an argument for the theory…

— Roger Ebert

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

— Roger Ebert

Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to…

— Roger Ebert

One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered

— Roger Ebert

It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of…

— Roger Ebert

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

— Roger Ebert

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

— Roger Ebert

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such…

— Roger Ebert

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell…

— Roger Ebert