We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it? — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. — 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
It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough? — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such… — 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
“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
Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control. — 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
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion. — 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
Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“The world of French crime films is a particular place, informed by the French love for Hollywood film noir, a genre they… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane,… — 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
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
![“Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.” quote by Roger Ebert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2d8/roger-ebert-655_audience_gene-siskel-often-mentioned-something-fr_61356.jpg)
