It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.' — 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
I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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 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
The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures -… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to… — 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… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can… — 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
“He was an editor for seven years before directing his first film, and his career stands as an argument for the theory… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Buñuel’s films constitute one of the most distinctive bodies of work in the first century of films. He was cynical, but not… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be. — 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
Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom,… — 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… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Much has been written about Generation X and the films about it. Clerks is so utterly authentic that its heroes have never… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other… — 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
