If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Valentines Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think its more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career… — 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
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
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
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
I've been around a long time, and young men, if there is one thing I know, it is that the only way… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Immortals is without doubt the best-looking awful movie you will ever see. Eiko Ishioka's costume designs alone deserve an Oscar nomination. "They… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just… — 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
If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long. — 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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