I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there? — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years… — 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
(Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Dirty Love wasn't written and directed, it was committed. Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We… — 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
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
“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We must try to contribute joy to the world. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to… — 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
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
I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already… — 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
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one… — 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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